#acad shell
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I have trouble shelling out to ACADR12 from 3D Studio V.4. When the
ACAD.BAT file runs I get "out of environment space" message after
each line. When ACAD does finally load, the DCL files, MNU, and some
TXT files are not found. I assume this is because acad\support path
is not loading for lack of environment space. Acad runs fine from
DOS. How can I get 3DS to give up enough memory for ACAD
environment? I am using 64 megRAM so it should work; and I have the
dos SHELL command set to 32768 in the config.sys. Still I get the
"out of environment space" error message.
Peter Landeck
Peter
"out of environment space" usually means that too many set variables are
present. The way to fix it is in config.sys with a line "SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM
If that should work(no guarantees, it could be PharLap problems) please let us
know why you would want to shell from 3DS to Acad?<BG>
TedB
-Ted Boardman
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Thank you for the prompt response. It is convenient to shell to ACAD from 3DS
because I do most mesh modeling with DXF out from there. I seem to be working
most from arcitectural drawings in DWG files to begin with. OS2 of course
solves this problem, but I am having some trouble with the RAM memory during
render of larger files which requires I switch back down to DOS.
I do have the following line in the config.sys
SHELL-C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM C:\DOS\ /P /E:32768
The /E:32768 is supposed to represent the largest size shell possible in DOS.
hmmm……Peter Landeck
>> It is convenient to shell to ACAD from 3DS <<
Peter
It sure is a good way to test the limits of a system, too<G>
Have you been able to shell to 3DS in the past and this is a new problem or is
this the first try?
Setting /E:32768 would be excessive in any case and probably reduces the ram
available to other programs. Type "set"<CR> from the command line and see if
all your variables have been set and reduce the number until you see problems.
I'm not a memory guru, but because Acad and 3DS use different versions of
PharLap, I would suspect that to be a potential problem in itself.
Maybe someone else with good memory knowledge can jump in.
Good Luck
TedB
-Ted Boardman
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>>I have trouble shelling out to ACADR12 from 3D Studio V.4. When the ACAD.BAT
>>file runs I get "out of environment space" message after each line.
I have never tried to start acad from 3DS, but i know this error message.
The environment space is independent from yourt RAM, it can be set in
config.sys with
a command like SHELL= C:\'somewhere'\command.com /e:1024
where the /e:1024 sets the size in BYTES !
Just try to do the proper settings for acad BEFORE you start 3DS. Copy all
lines beginning with SET in your acad.bat to your 3DS.bat, so the settings are
correct when you shell out to DOS for acad.
Hope this helps
Peter K.