Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 15:20 CST
From: DARREL HANKERSON <HANK AT DUCVAX DOT AUBURN DOT EDU>
Subject: ms_sh200 command lines
To: ericb AT lsid DOT hp DOT com
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

>You need to tell MS_SH200 that ls.exe (and all other DJGPP-compiled
>programs) can accept the "@filename" method of passing a long
>command-line.  This will allow MS_SH200 to pass arbitrarily long

I was certain that I have tried this, and it failed. I sent a note to the
author of ms_sh200, Stewartson, and he replied that a recompilation was
needed. 

ms_sh200 was posted to comp.binaries.ibm.pc (and it included an OS/2 version)
some time ago. In the post, stewartson said that he hoped to post sources
to c.b.i.p someday.

>And so on.  My configuration file is fairly big after listing all of
>the FSF utilities and all of DJ's programs.

But does it really use the @filename-convention? I was certain that it did not.


This thread no longer concerns djgpp directly, but I'll ask one more question
anyway: Is it possible to get sh to pass quoted lines to gawk? I can never 
get these unix scripts to work without cutting the gawk line to be of
the form 
   gawk -f file.awk

Rommel suggests using " instead of ', but I think I've tried this (and will
try again tonight).

--Darrel Hankerson hank AT ducvax DOT auburn DOT edu