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  2. From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
  4. Subject: Re: "Environment Space", Running out of Room
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov20.205643.20982@njitgw.njit.edu>
  6. Date: 20 Nov 92 20:56:43 GMT
  7. References: <1992Nov16.001744.4220@u.washington.edu> <57250022@acf3.NYU.EDU>
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  9. Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.
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  13. In article <57250022@acf3.NYU.EDU> chapman@acf3.NYU.EDU (Gary W. Chapman, , , ) writes:
  14. >>Is there anyway to increase the amount of environment space for PATH and SET 
  15. >>commands in DOS or OS/2 sessions?  I'm having difficulty getting FORTRAN 5.1
  16. >>running under OS/2 becuase it requires all kinds of SET and PATH statements.
  17.  
  18. You shouldn't have a problem for OS/2 sessions.
  19.  
  20. >For DOS sessions, it's just like under DOS - only I can't find it in
  21. >the online docs:
  22. > 
  23. >In the config.sys, add /E:xxxx at the end of the SHELL= line
  24.  
  25. Try looking up COMMAND.COM in the command reference.
  26.  
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