Dealing with Multiple DOS Shells

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DEALING WITH MULTIPLE DOS SHELLS

If you are running more than one level of COMMAND.COM (shelling from Windows, DesqView, Word Perfect Office) and having environment space problems here's a trick. Before you load up your fancy shells, put this in a batch file like your AUTOEXEC.BAT.


 SET MXCMD=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

This variable will be trashed by MarxMenu thus freeing up the environment space it occupied. This will not only allow MarxMenu to run but may solve problems with other programs you are running that need environment space as well.

Another option is, if you can control how the second shell is run, add the /E switch to the command line of COMMAND.COM to force a larger default environment space.


Example:
COMMAND.COM /E:400

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