Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 19:45:50 +0300
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> From: i_b_malone AT yahoo DOT com (imalone)
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 11:09:17 GMT
> 
> Incidentally, is there any way of calling a program with a command
> line longer than 128 characters if it wasn't compiled by djgpp?

It depends on the program being invoked.

Programs compiled with Windows compilers usually look at the CMDLINE
environment variable if the normal DOS command tail says the command
was too long.  DJGPP will support invocation of such command in the
next release, but you could code it itself if you are desperate; the
information is in Ralf Brown's Interrupt List.

Many programs also support the so-called ``response files'', whereby a
program is invoked like this:

	program @file

and the actual command line is written to the named file.

But if the program you want to invoke doesn't support any of these
methods, you are stuck with the DOS 126-character limit.