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Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 07:05:05 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>From: "one2001boy AT yahoo DOT com" <one2001boy AT yahoo DOT com>
>>Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 02:48:07 GMT
>>
>>Then, I added one more file to tar. It gets the error message.
>>"The system cannot execute the specified program."
>>
>>C:\>tar cvf ctree.tar \cc\toolkit\sbin\qanitest.exe 
>>\cc\toolkit\demos\mechanism\chapters\startup\animatestCR.cc 
>>\cc\toolkit\include\fourbar.h
>>The system cannot execute the specified program.
>>[...]
>>I just calculate the total number of characters including space
>>for
>>"tar cvf ctree.tar \cc\toolkit\sbin\qanitest.exe 
>>\cc\toolkit\demos\mechanism\chapters\startup\animatestCR.cc 
>>\cc\toolkit\include\fourbar.h"
>>
>>it is only 138 characters. I think MSDOS supports at least 1024 
>>characteres for command line.
> 
> 
> No, the maximum command-line length that Windows can give to a DOS
> program is 126.  So this last command is too long.

Based on brian's input, here is the command line size allowed in Windows.

MS DOS command.com	 127
Windows NT cmd.exe	 256
Windows 2K cmd.exe	2046
Windows XP cmd.exe	8190

I use Windows XP, not sure why it still limits to 126 for tar.exe?


> 
> DJ Delorie suggested to use the Make utility to have up to 14KB long
> command lines.  Someone else, I think it was Hans-Bernhard, suggested
> to use the response file facility (see section 16.4 of the DJGPP FAQ
> list for details).  These are two ways to work around the
> 126-character limitation.

Thanks. Just think if will be more nice if it can work out without using 
those utilities.