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Date: | Tue, 3 Nov 1998 11:02:10 +0200 (IST) |
From: | Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> |
X-Sender: | eliz AT is |
To: | Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com> |
cc: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
Subject: | Re: System help |
In-Reply-To: | <363E878B.466B476B@cartsys.com> |
Message-ID: | <Pine.SUN.3.91.981103110142.19001G-100000@is> |
MIME-Version: | 1.0 |
Reply-To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote: > The 126-character limit is built into DOS, and Windows doesn't (AFAIK) > provide a good way to get around it. Windows 9X does have a way around it (leave the first 126 characters on the normal command-line tail, set the tail length byte to 7Eh, and put the entire command line in the environment variable CMDLINE), but DJGPP's version of `system' doesn't support this. Any takers to add this?
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