Pc environ (fwd)

[Mark]

For those others that insist on living in 640K... :)

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>From mark Wed Jun  2 20:29:47 1993
>Subject: Pc environ
>To: 74076.1041 at compuserve.com
>Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 20:29:47 +1000 (EST)

>>I couldn't get Karl's hopmail.bat to run on my PC (not enough environment
>>space?) so I wrote this in C and it works OK.

>Hey Hal,

>Um although I abhor dos, I happen to know something of it... you might want
>to put the line:

>shell=c:\command.com /e:1024 /p

>in your config.sys... that will give you a K of environment space instead
>of the usual (256bytes?) they usually give you. Increase the 1024 as 
>needed.

>Mark
>mark at coombs.anu.edu.au