From:	pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org (Peter J. Farley III)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Another tip of the week
Date:	Fri, 05 Sep 1997 00:32:18 GMT
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In the spirit of Paul Derbyshire's "tip of the week" idea, here's one
I just ran across in the Win95 SDK that could be useful for we
commandline junkies:

In CONFIG.SYS, you can expand the DOS commandline length to 255 bytes
by using the following parameter to command.com:

shell=c:\windows\command.com /u:255

This is documented on page 687 of the MS Win95 Resource Kit from
Microsoft Press, under the heading "Creating Long Filenames at the
MS-DOS Prompt".

Enjoy!

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Peter J. Farley III (pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org)
base (about 150 records).  In using the full
database of over 180,000 records it seems to do this more than once.
Strangely, it seems to somehow recover afterwards.  I expected all of
the following items read into memory to be corrupted because each read
relies on the number of bytes read from the previous one, but this is
not the case.  I have no idea why!

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