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- From: exs@tigger.cs.bham.ac.uk (Edmund Shing)
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- Subject: size of environment when shelling out from Demacs
- Message-ID: <Bs3Jun.IA3@cs.bham.ac.uk>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 11:27:58 GMT
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- Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK
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- I have a 386SX-25 pc clone with 4 Mb of memory and a 40Mb HD.
- The size of the environment is set in config.sys as follows:
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- SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM /E:1024 /P
-
- The batch file with which I start up Demacs has the following line:
-
- SET SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM
-
- This batch file also sets up all the other environment variables
- required by Demacs (such as EMACSLOADPATH, EMACSEXECPATH etc.).
-
- Now, when I am using Demacs, I sometimes want to shell out to use
- another application temporarily (like a spell checker or thesaurus). I
- want to use batch files to start these applications up, so that the
- correct environment variables are set for the application. However,
- when I try to run these batch files I run out of environment space.
-
- I have tried extending the environment space as set in the config.sys
- file:
-
- SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 /P
-
- and also tried changing the SHELL variable in my emacs.bat file:
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- SET SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM /E:2048
-
- but neither seem to have any effect. Has anybody got any suggestions
- on how to expand the environment space when shelling out from Demacs?
-
- Thanks (I will summarize responses on the net),
-
-
- Edmund
-
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- E-Mail: exs@cs.bham.ac.uk | University of Birmingham
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