Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/15/16:37:36
>> > I believe that COMMAND.COM / 4DOS allready allow you to do what
>> > you are suggesting by pressing a control character at the end of
>> > a line. In plain ole COMMAND.COM without DOSKEY, I think that it
>> > is the ESC character although it has been 5 or 6 years since I
>> > remember.
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>Nope, I tried for 5 minutes and read help and stuff. Can't find
>it. Well, it could be added if someone wants it.
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There's a limit in DOS of 128 characters for the command line, after all environment variables have been expanded (this is the PATH limitation problem). I think this is because there's a fixed-size buffer. While it would be relatively trivial to add line continuation support, there wouldn't be a lot of point as anything longer than a line and a half wouldn't work.
I don't know how easy it would be to make the buffer longer --- how many command-line editing TSR's modify the buffer directly? Changing the size or position would confuse them horribly.
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