Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 14:29:38 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Another tip of the week
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On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Peter J. Farley III wrote:

> No, I haven't actually tried it yet, myself.  And I suspect that DJGPP
> are not expecting or searching for an alternate size bigger than the
> default.

The problem is how to pass such long command lines to DOS programs (as 
opposed to COMMAND.COM's internal commands).  The DOS Exec function only 
allows for 127 characters, including the trailing CR.  Windows 95 puts 
the full command line in the environment variable CMDLINE, but DJGPP 
doesn't support this method (use the response file if you need to pass 
long commands from the DOS box prompt).