From:	elf AT netcom DOT com (Marc Singer)
Message-Id:	<199610241809.LAA04295@netcom17.netcom.com>
Subject:	Re: Source archive for make-3.75 and long names
To:	eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date:	Thu, 24 Oct 1996 11:07:20 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.961024140456.9865F-100000@is> from "Eli Zaretskii" at Oct 24, 96 02:06:45 pm
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> > > It shouldn't be too hard to write a small DJGPP program that will put the 
> > > long command line into CMDLINE variable and invoke the program you need.
> > 
> > Does this technique work with Win32 native programs?  My client is
> > using MSC10, aka Visual (ha) C++ 4.0.
> 
> I have no idea, but I cannot imagine why not.
> 
> Even if that doesn't work, you can change `system' and/or `spawn' in the 
> DJGPP library so that they will support whatever method native Win32 
> programs use.  Since DJGPP is free software, you can do whatever you like.

Yes, of course.  That is why we are all here.

Yet, I'm confused.  I believe that the only way to pass long command
lines to Win32 programs is to call the Win32 entry point.  I was not
aware that we had that ability from DPMI.  Please correct me, but I
thought we launched programs via the DOS-style interrupt 21.  Cygnus
has implemented a native Win32 bin-utils package, but it works because
Windows loads their program as a native binary.

So, who uses the CMDLINE variable for command lines? 

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