Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/17/09:53:07
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Ian 'DrDebug' Day wrote:
> 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?
Not #include, @include. Like djgpp programs you can specify the command
line params in a file, and pass it as '[command] @[param_file]'.
...Nissim...
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