From:	Philip Boucherat <boucheratp AT teccon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Where does command line length limitation come from?
Date:	Fri, 2 Mar 2001 15:51:22 +0000
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Hi,

I finally got round to building a M68K cross compiler from the V2.952
gcc sources using djgpp on Windows 95 as my native compiler, but all the
tools I've built have got a command line length limit of around 160
characters. The only reason I tried doing this in the first place was to
get round this limitation on the V2.7.2 tools I got from
ftp.lysator.liu.se 

Is this limitation something in the shell or is it built in to the tools
I built? Or maybe neither of these ...

I don't think it's the shell because the djgpp compiler seem to accepts
command lines of any length.

Cheers,

Phil

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Philip Boucherat

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