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> From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
> Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 10:29:53 GMT
> 
> Get it permanently out of the way by installing 4dos, now available
> free at jpsoft.com.  The command line limit will then be 511.

Alas, even 511 characters is too few, e.g. for compilation and link
commands.  And that is even before we consider this gotcha:

> You will no longer have the complete command tail available at 80
> in the PSP, but very few systems use this anyhow.
> If you really need the whole line you can find it in the environment
> under "CMDLINE"

I'm not sure you can rely on DOS programs to support CMDLINE.  DJGPP,
for example, supports it only in the development sources (and in beta
releases of v2.04), so DJGPP programs compiled with official versions
of the C library will generally not work under 4DOS.

> and there may even be a pointer to it in the PSP somewhere.

No, there's no pointer, but the command tail in the PSP should be in
special format to indicate that CMDLINE is to be used.

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