Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/16/19:57:06
In article <Pine DOT GSO DOT 3 DOT 95 DOT 970216123325 DOT 28935D-100000 AT sparkie DOT gnofn DOT org>,
"Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org> writes
>On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, Ian 'DrDebug' Day wrote:
>
>> I've been using 4DOS with DOS apps for years it allows command lines of
>> upto 256 characters. It simply only gives 126 to the application. It's
>> still useful to allow more (which are use for long filenames, internal
>> commands etc.)
>
>Well, programmers have been bouncing off that wall for years, which is why
>many fine well written programs allow the use of @include files.
Did I miss something there?
What have #include files got to do with command line length?
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