From: "Alexei A. Frounze" <dummy_addressee AT hotmail DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Where does command line length limitation come from?
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 12:10:53 -0500
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Something around 128 (or 126) bytes is an MSDOS limit. This is due to a
fixed size of a Program Segment Prefix (PSP) which contains command line of
a program.

There are a few ways to pass more than 126 bytes as parameters to DJGPP. See
the FAQ.

Good Luck
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"Philip Boucherat" <boucheratp AT teccon DOT co DOT uk> wrote in message
news:rvOBjBA6F8n6MAv8 AT teccon DOT co DOT uk...
> Hi,
>
> I finally got round to building a M68K cross compiler from the V2.952
> gcc sources using djgpp on Windows 95 as my native compiler, but all the
> tools I've built have got a command line length limit of around 160
> characters. The only reason I tried doing this in the first place was to
> get round this limitation on the V2.7.2 tools I got from
> ftp.lysator.liu.se
>
> Is this limitation something in the shell or is it built in to the tools
> I built? Or maybe neither of these ...
>
> I don't think it's the shell because the djgpp compiler seem to accepts
> command lines of any length.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Phil
>
> --
> Philip Boucherat