From:	mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
Date:	Sun, 16 Feb 1997 11:24:12 -0500 (EST)
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To:	dg AT dcs DOT st-and DOT ac DOT uk
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Subject:	Re: [opendos] BAD Filesystems
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On Sat, 15 Feb 1997 dg AT dcs DOT st-and DOT ac DOT uk wrote:

> >> > 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.
> [...]
> >Nope, I tried for 5 minutes and read help and stuff.  Can't find
> >it.  Well, it could be added if someone wants it.
> [...]
> 
> 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.

4DOS changes this 128 byte limit. COMMAND.COM more than likely
will follow when we get our hands on it.

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