Date:	Sun, 4 Feb 2001 17:25:01 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	April <awhite AT user DOT rose DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: shelling out to run 'ar'
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On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, April wrote:

> I am playing with an editor program, and I started making it create libs
> from .o files.  During developement I show the command line I am
> shelling out to "....\ar.exe rcs libdelta.a  Appver.o .... version.o"
> which works fine if I copy and paste it to the Win95 command line, but
> when shelling out, AR reports an error 'unknown option e'
> 
> I am using the Win32api CreateProcess() to shell out - which is working
> fantastic for GCC compiling and linking, as well as the resource
> compiler - so it seems it is particular to AR.

I suspect that you are overflowing the 126-character limit of the DOS 
command line.  DJGPP programs currently don't support any method of 
passing long command lines that would work with CreateProcess.

> Does AR recognize a @batch file?

All DJGPP programs support @response-file.  See section 16.3 of the DJGPP 
FAQ.

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