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Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 20:33:15 -0800
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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Subject: Re: System help
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Jorge Ivan Meza Martinez wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am using the stdlib's System to make a call to an external program,
> the Java intepreter like:
> 
> sprintf ( args, "Java %s", other_string );
> system ( args );
> 
> args goes Ok; but System is limited, if you use a short args it goes Ok, but
> with longs args it doesn't work; from the libc help I think that System
> would not be limited to the 126 characters, but it appears to be limited.
> 
> Can you help me to use System with longer than 126 strings ?

The 126-character limit is built into DOS, and Windows doesn't (AFAIK)
provide a good way to get around it.  DJGPP programs have a workaround,
but it only works when one DJGPP program calls another.  "Java" is
presumably not a DJGPP-compiled program, hence the problem.  No
workaround that I know of, unless "Java" supports some method of reading
its command line from a response file.
-- 

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com