From:	i_b_malone AT yahoo DOT com (imalone)
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Subject:	Re: spawn() problem.
Date:	Sun, 20 May 2001 11:28:46 GMT
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Thanks, now I've got somewhere to start from.

On Sat, 19 May 2001 19:45:50 +0300, "Eli Zaretskii"
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

>> From: i_b_malone AT yahoo DOT com (imalone)
>> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
>> Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 11:09:17 GMT
>> 
>> Incidentally, is there any way of calling a program with a command
>> line longer than 128 characters if it wasn't compiled by djgpp?
>
>It depends on the program being invoked.
>
>Programs compiled with Windows compilers usually look at the CMDLINE
>environment variable if the normal DOS command tail says the command
>was too long.  DJGPP will support invocation of such command in the
>next release, but you could code it itself if you are desperate; the
>information is in Ralf Brown's Interrupt List.
>

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