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"Out of Environment Space" Error
DocumentID: 643082
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:18:49 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Solutions: Memo WP50_011 dated December 19, 1988 discusses the cause of the "Out of Environment Space" error. It includes the comments that in DOS 3.2 or higher, the environment size can be increased by loading a secondary command processor.
      "This is done by running COMMAND.COM with the /E:(environment size) switch. For example COMMAND/E:3200 would increase the environment to 32 K."

Users who are receiving this error on a regular basis would probably want to load the secondary command processor in the CONFIG.SYS file. To do this, they would insert SHELL=C:\COMMAND/P/E:NNNNN where NNNNN is the number of bytes to be allocated for the secondary command processor. The value of NNNNN must be in the range 160 through 32768. /P directs DOS to install the secondary command processor permanently into memory.

For DOS version 3.1, the command is the same, but size is expressed in multiples of 16 bytes. The value of NNNNN must be in the range 10 (160 bytes) through 62 (992 bytes).

For your information, by default, DOS allocates 127 bytes for environment strings.

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