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> From: "one2001boy AT yahoo DOT com" <one2001boy AT yahoo DOT com>
> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 02:48:07 GMT
> 
> Then, I added one more file to tar. It gets the error message.
> "The system cannot execute the specified program."
> 
> C:\>tar cvf ctree.tar \cc\toolkit\sbin\qanitest.exe 
> \cc\toolkit\demos\mechanism\chapters\startup\animatestCR.cc 
> \cc\toolkit\include\fourbar.h
> The system cannot execute the specified program.
> [...]
> I just calculate the total number of characters including space
> for
> "tar cvf ctree.tar \cc\toolkit\sbin\qanitest.exe 
> \cc\toolkit\demos\mechanism\chapters\startup\animatestCR.cc 
> \cc\toolkit\include\fourbar.h"
> 
> it is only 138 characters. I think MSDOS supports at least 1024 
> characteres for command line.

No, the maximum command-line length that Windows can give to a DOS
program is 126.  So this last command is too long.

DJ Delorie suggested to use the Make utility to have up to 14KB long
command lines.  Someone else, I think it was Hans-Bernhard, suggested
to use the response file facility (see section 16.4 of the DJGPP FAQ
list for details).  These are two ways to work around the
126-character limitation.