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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 19:00:14 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: cygwin 1.3.20-1 - strange problems with long command lines in 
 nt4
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On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Randall R Schulz wrote:

> Igor,
>
> At 15:24 2003-03-12, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Willis, Matthew wrote:
> >
> >...
> >
> > > which will run when I pass long arguments using bash.exe as my shell. I can
> > > also pass long arguments to this program under cmd.exe. The only difference
> > > seems to be that bash.exe fully expands argv[0] to the full win32 path name
> > > and cmd.exe leaves it as myecho.exe. In both cases I was able to
> > use command
> > > lines over 2000 bytes long without problems.
> >
> >Matt,
> >
> >Just got another idea.  See if this helps:
> ><http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#AEN733>
>
> I believe the @argFileName syntax only works when a non-Cygwin program
> invokes a Cygwin program.
>
> I cannot make the example given in the user guide section you mention
> work as shown (under BASH). It does work when run from CMD.exe.

Randall,

I believe we *were* talking about stracing the offending program under
cmd.exe...
	Igor
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