From: dg AT dcs DOT st-and DOT ac DOT uk Message-Id: <14795.9702152115@pulteney.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk> To: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Subject: Re: [opendos] BAD Filesystems In-Reply-To: mharris@blackwidow.saultc.on.ca's message of Sat, 15 Feb 97 15:06:03 -0500. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 15 Feb 97 21:15:46 +0000 Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Precedence: bulk >> > I believe that COMMAND.COM / 4DOS allready allow you to do what >> > you are suggesting by pressing a control character at the end of >> > a line. In plain ole COMMAND.COM without DOSKEY, I think that it >> > is the ESC character although it has been 5 or 6 years since I >> > remember. [...] >Nope, I tried for 5 minutes and read help and stuff. Can't find >it. Well, it could be added if someone wants it. [...] There's a limit in DOS of 128 characters for the command line, after all environment variables have been expanded (this is the PATH limitation problem). I think this is because there's a fixed-size buffer. While it would be relatively trivial to add line continuation support, there wouldn't be a lot of point as anything longer than a line and a half wouldn't work. I don't know how easy it would be to make the buffer longer --- how many command-line editing TSR's modify the buffer directly? Changing the size or position would confuse them horribly. -- ------------------- http://www-hons-cs.cs.st-and.ac.uk/~dg -------------------- If you're up against someone more intelligent than you are, do something totally insane and let him think himself to death. --- Pyanfar Chanur ---------------- Sun-Earther David Daton Given of Lochcarron ------------------