OpenEuphoria

Re: Question about environment space

• Posted by Hawke <mdeland at NWINFO.NET> Nov 26, 1998
• 402 views

Hawke wrote:
> > SHELL = C:\COMMAND.COM /E:1024
> >
> >      and
> >
> > SHELL = C:\COMMAND.COM C:/ \E:1024
ps.

for reference try:
shell = {path}\command.com /E:1024 /P

*exactly* like that, substituting {path} for
c: or c:\windows, or whatever...

without the /P parameter, you won't actually
*ahem* save the environment setting... sorta :)

(it starts a new copy of command.com with the
specified settings...)

this may help you overall anyway...
and from your message, after rereading it
really carefully, i realized you may actually be
booting into *PURE* dos mode with that shortcut,
and i really don't think you need to...
dos boxes, with the right settings, which can pifs/shortcuts
created for 'problem children' on an individual basis,
very rarely give me any problems with coexistence while
multitasking or show much sign of speed penalty...
(example: running TrueEU or Neil programs under a
 dos box with the prior mentioned settings, and then
 rebooting into *pure* dos mode, showed frame rate
 differences that were truly minor... very often
 showing less than 1% speed loss while running
 email, and editing a few files and etc :)

hope this helps further, sorry for double posting...
--Hawke'