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From: | "Alexei A. Frounze" <dummy_addressee AT hotmail DOT com> |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: Where does command line length limitation come from? |
Date: | Fri, 2 Mar 2001 12:10:53 -0500 |
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Something around 128 (or 126) bytes is an MSDOS limit. This is due to a fixed size of a Program Segment Prefix (PSP) which contains command line of a program. There are a few ways to pass more than 126 bytes as parameters to DJGPP. See the FAQ. Good Luck -- Alexei A. Frounze alexfru [AT] chat [DOT] ru http://alexfru.chat.ru http://members.xoom.com/alexfru/ http://welcome.to/pmode/ "Philip Boucherat" <boucheratp AT teccon DOT co DOT uk> wrote in message news:rvOBjBA6F8n6MAv8 AT teccon DOT co DOT uk... > 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 > > -- > Philip Boucherat
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