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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 13:16:00 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Juha Kivijärvi <juhkivij AT utu DOT fi>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Problem with long parameters to system()
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On 19 Oct 1998, Juha Kivijärvi wrote:

> 1) Why does system() call seem to truncate the command line to 128
>    characters although the info page states that this shouldn't happen
>    when calling other DJGPP compiled programs? What to do?

Upgrade to DJGPP v2.01.  In v2.0, `system' didn't support long command
lines, only the spawn* and exec* family did.

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