Install: Re: Impressive.

[Michael M. Butler]

Well, it's pretty simple. Here's a narrative of the process.

I followed your instructions, didn't find the new "erights.org" in the
Start/Programs menu. I tried this a couple of times.

After a little snooping around, I REMed out the "@echo off" line in your
Startup.bat, watched it execute. I saw that it was reporting insufficient
environment space.

My memory for DOS stuff having been idle for some time, it had faded. And
Win98's help was no help, of course: "Why would you want to do anything
with DOS these days?"

So I did a little askjeeves-ing and turned up a promising and familiar
CONFIG.SYS entry:
     shell=c:\command.com /e:xxxx /p
...where xxxx is the number tbd to provide adequate environment space; I
don't know what the default is, but evidently Symantec VisualCafe and
whatnot had used it up in making CLASSPATH and PATH what they wanted them
to be.
I don't remember what the /p option does off hand.

(my Win98 CONFIG.SYS was essentially empty: just some REMed-out DEVICE= lines)

I tried substituting 1024 for the xxxx above, rebooted, and the install
worked.
As you may recall, standard procedure is to reboot after you change
CONFIG.SYS.

But then E and Elmer both reported insufficient environment space when I
ran them. So I fiddled with the value of xxxx; 2048 worked, so I started
chipping away. I've settled on 1200. So far, it seems to work. A smaller
number might suffice, but there's such a thing as overwaxing a banana. :)

That's my story.

MMB

"At 18:28 1999/09/03 -0700, you wrote:
 >At 06:38 PM 9/3/99 , Michael M. Butler wrote:
 >>I am sure I don't know enough to be _properly_ impressed yet. But I'm
 >>definitely impressed. Elmer and I are going to have some fun together.
 >
 >Cool!
 >
 >>PS: I'm running OK so far with 1200 k of environment space.
 >
 >I want to hear everything about the problems you had getting this working,
 >and how you overcame them.  Thanks.
 >
 >
 >         Cheers,
 >         --MarkM
 >
 >
 >