Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:23:31 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: `system' and wildcard expansion
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On Sun, 28 Jul 1996, DJ Delorie wrote:

> Why does system parse the line at all?  It should pass it as-is to the
> program.  Yes, I know this makes it hard to pass long command lines,
> but could we add some other mechanism for doing that (like 4dos's way)
> that would be backward compatible?

How can this be backward-compatible if the old crt0 doesn't know about 
the new method?  I thought about this but didn't find any acceptable 
solution.  But I will be glad to hear any ideas on this.