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- From: dillman@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Thomas Dillman)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: Environment size hack in DOS 5?
- Summary: Don't tell me about SHELL= in CONFIG.SYS!
- Message-ID: <BxnpF1.2wH@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 13:28:00 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.234502.22273@midway.uchicago.edu> <dmurdoch.1.721630905@mast.queensu.ca>
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- >In article <1992Nov12.234502.22273@midway.uchicago.edu> pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson) writes:
- >>BTW, patching COMMAND.COM *is* the only correct solution. CONFIG.SYS
- >>only affects the first loaded copy of COMMAND.COM. Further, there are
- >>various kludge solutions floating around, e.g., ENV.ARC (from 1988 [!]) in
- >>MSDOS.SYSUTL on Simtel, et al, but I am not interested in kludge solutions.
- >
- As an alternative 4DOS can be configured to create at least X bytes of
- environment space in any sub-shells.
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- Thomas J. Dillman
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