DFVARS.BAT with Windows ME

[Intel_C_Intel]

I like to use the command line and command "df..." with options. I don't want to put the 'dfvars.bat' stuff into my
autoexec.bat file. Until Windows ME (new computer), I've been able to run 'dfvars.bat' when opening a new DOS box
to run the command line, and all was peachy keen. Now, that appears to be difficult - maybe impossible. With this new
Pentium-4 running Win ME, whenever I run 'dfvars.bat' in a Dos box I get 10 messages: "Setting environment for Using
Visual Fortran Tools" (once, in the bat file), and the following error message repeated nine (9) times: "Out of
environment space.". Can any of you who are more familiar with the new 'Dos' incarnation in Windows ME help me to
re-establish the command line operation of V. Fortran? I doubt v. 6.6 "a" would make any difference.

Thanks, jrchaff

[Intel_C_Intel]

RTFM

[Intel_C_Intel]

Right click on the shortcut you use to open a DOS box. Click "properties". Select the memory tab.

On the right side there's a pull-down that lets you set the size of the environment space.

This is better than setting it in config.sys because you don't have to reboot every time you try a new value.

BTW, a surprise you've got coming with ME is that the only commands that work in the autoexec.bat are ones that set enviroment variables. So if you do decide to let dfvars run on startup, you need to put its commands into autoexec.bat; you can't just call it at the end.

Ken Plotkin

[Intel_C_Intel]

Take a look at:
http://www.compaq.com/fortran/kb/q1018.html
It will tell you how to set up things.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

If you upgraded to 6.6 (rather than installing it new), see this KB article for a pointer to a utility that will establish the system-wide environment variables on Me.

Me has a rather strange method of dealing with environment variables, a hybrid of Windows 98 and Windows 2000 (but different from both). That MS took away the ease of extending the environment space without eliminating the need for doing so is a real pain...

Steve