environment space

[Olivier Dagenais]

Add this line to your config.sys:

SHELL=C:\Command.com /P /E:2048

Or if you already have it, increase the value after the '/E:', it is the
default size of the environment.  Reboot and try again.

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<lchan_ea at my-deja.com> wrote in message news:8uf6cv$ib3$1 at nnrp1.deja.com...
> I am invoking an executable as a subprocess from my Python script using
> os.system and when I run the script by double-clicking in Windows
> explorer, I get a message: Out of environment space.
>
> This does not happen if I run the Python script in the IDE or within a
> DOS window. I've tried setting all the DOS prompt exectuables to the
> max environment size and this still doesnt work.
>
> Is Python calling some internal DOS shell? Any ideas about how to init
> the environment size for the subprocess before execution?
>
> Thanks.
> Lydia Chan
>
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