Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/16/21:16:26
Ian Day wrote:
>Colin W. Glenn wrote
>>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?
They are called "response files" and are used to get around the command
line length limitations. If file A has content "-R", then the command line
"rm @A" is equivalent to "rm -R".
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