Re: Environment Space in XP

Stephen Quinn wrote:

> Alan
> 
> As soon as you 'run' your batch file the 'Shell' containing those
settings
> is closed when the batch file exits - that's why you don't see anything.
> 
> The way it works is
> 1: Current DOS window (Parent)
> 2: Run batch file (creates a child shell with all your new variables),
> nothing executed by batch file the shell closes 3: On closing it returns
> to parent shell whose environment didn't have the variables
> 
> You cannot set up a DOS environment like that unless you execute an app
> that will use the shell that was just created (Eg Norton Commander,
XTree,
> etc... ).
> 
> The environment variables (LIB/INCLUDE/OBJ/PLL) need to be in
autoexec.nt
> or
> what I used to do was include them in the rmake file itself.
> 
> Set up the paths in the windows environment and forget about them.
> 
I removed the shell line and put the PATH statement and the SETs in the
there too. I removed the batch file.

When I executed a DOS box, it again showed 'Out of environment space' but
I
was able to run SET to see what the environment space now held:

COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\COMMAND.COM
ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\DO***E~1\ALLUSE~1
APPDATA=C:\DO***E~1\Alan\APPLIC~1
BUFFERS=41
CLIENTNAME=Console
COMMONPROGRAMFILES=C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1
COMPUTERNAME=ALAN-32XP
DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1
FILES=255
FP_NO_HOST_CHECK=NO
HOMEDRIVE=C:
HOMEPATH=\Do***ents and Settings\Alan
LOGONSERVER=\\ALAN-32XP
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=1
OS=Windows_NT
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 15 Model 39 Stepping 1, AuthenticAMD
PROCESSOR_LEVEL=15
PROCESSOR_REVISION=2701
PROGRAMFILES=C:\PROGRA~1
PROMPT=$P$G
SESSIONNAME=Console
SYSTEMDRIVE=C:
SYSTEMROOT=C:\WINDOWS
TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
USERDOMAIN=ALAN-32XP
USERNAME=Alan
USERPROFILE=C:\DO***E~1\Alan
PATH=C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\WBEM;C
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM;C:\BIN;C:\PROGRA~1\WS;G:\PRG\CLIPPER\BIN;G:\PRG\
CLIPPER=//F:54
TMP=C:\TEMP
INCLUDE=G:\PRG\CLIPPER\INCLUDE;G:\PRG\CLIPPER\CATOOLS\INCLUDE
LIB=G:\PRG\CLIPPER\LIB;G:\PRG\CLIPPER\CATOOLS\LIB;G:\PRG\BLINKER\LIB
OBJ=G:\PRG\CLIPPER\OBJ;G:\PRG\CLIPPER\CATOOLS\OBJ;G:\PRG\BLINKER\OBJ
PLL=G:\PR

It obviously ran out of steam on the last assignment. I still cannot see
why
it runs out of space. I there no way of increasing it?  Can the /E switch
still be employed? If so how?

Alan