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Out of Environment Space

Running DOS Program under Win 2000

I have a MS-DOS based program running successfully in Windows 98 with the following config.sys file:

Device=C:Windowshimem.sys
Device=C:Windowsemm386.exe ram
Dos=high,umb
Files=50
Buffers=32

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You can edit the *.NT files by first unchecking the “read only” attribute using Windows Explorer, right click on the file, and go to properties… uncheck the “read only” box.

Maybe that will help?

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You might try adding this to your autoexec.nt:

command.com /e:1024

which would set an environment of 1024kb. Of course this would be using command.com for the DOS programs instead of cmd.exe, but it works.

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Hi swinn

you said:

You might try adding this to your autoexec.nt:

command.com /e:1024

which would set an environment of 1024kb. Of course this would be using command.com for the DOS programs instead of cmd.exe, but it works.

Dosen’t command.com belong in config.nt?

I used something like on old ms-dos computer.

shell=c:doscommand.com c:dos /p /e:512

To utilize the command.com do I have to do anything special in my pif?

Thanks for your responce

John

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