Specify environmental variable when starting command prompt?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Don Culp
  • Start date Start date
D

Don Culp

From the Run... option of the Start menu or from a shortcut in my Startup
folder, is there any way to set an environmental variable at the same time
that I'm opening a command prompt window. From the Run prompt I have tried:
cmd "SET ALGMEM=2000" (also without the " ") but this doesn't work. I
realize that I can manually set the ALGMEM environmental variable after the
cmd window opens but I'd like to avoid this since I need to open many of
these cmd windows, all with the same environmental variable. (Setting a
global ALGMEM environmental variable via the control panel interferes with a
Windows program that also uses the same environmental variable so this is
not an option.)

Thanks,
Don Culp
 
"Don Culp" <dculp@krell-engineering.com> wrote in message
news:Ol67gPfyHHA.4640@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> From the Run... option of the Start menu or from a shortcut in my Startup
> folder, is there any way to set an environmental variable at the same time
> that I'm opening a command prompt window. From the Run prompt I have
> tried:
> cmd "SET ALGMEM=2000" (also without the " ") but this doesn't work. I
> realize that I can manually set the ALGMEM environmental variable after
> the
> cmd window opens but I'd like to avoid this since I need to open many of
> these cmd windows, all with the same environmental variable. (Setting a
> global ALGMEM environmental variable via the control panel interferes with
> a
> Windows program that also uses the same environmental variable so this is
> not an option.)
>
> Thanks,
> Don Culp
>

Type this in your run box:
cmd /k set algmem=2000

or even better
cmd /f:on /k set algmem=2000 & mode con lines=50
 
Back
Top