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- Number: A1TH083090U521
- Subject: DOS 3.1 and Older Cannot Increase Environment
- Date: January 22, 1991
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- PROBLEM: Customer had problems mapping drives and needed to increase
- his environment. In PC DOS 3.1 and below there is not a
- shell environment parameter.
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- SOLUTION: PC DOS 3.2 and above does give you the option to increase
- the environment in bytes in the range of 160 to 32768. (The
- default is 160 bytes.) To increase the environment you need
- to put in the CONFIG.SYS "Shell = COMMAND.COM /p /e:xxxx"
- xxxx = byte size. An example CONFIG.SYS file:
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- files =50
- buffers=45
- Device=ANSI.SYS
- Shell=COMMAND.COM /P /E:1024
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- (X) This information was verified in the lab.
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