Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 14:21:12 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Sam Paik <paik AT 3dfx DOT com>
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com, paik AT vlsi3 DOT 3dfx DOT com
Subject: Re: Long command lines 
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On Thu, 11 Apr 1996, Sam Paik wrote:

> Well, to read a long command line, (say gcc gets called from nmake),
> if the psp command tail length byte is 127, get the real command
> line from the environment variable.  That seems safe.  Under normal
> DOS, this length byte should never be more than 126.

Thanks for the info.  There is one thing that bothers me: I think CMDLINE 
is also used by 4DOS/NDOS, but for other purposes.  Somebody should 
figure out if that could make any trouble (I don't have neither Win95 nor 
4DOS installed), in addition to other questions you ask.