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From: "yeep" <yeep AT xs4all DOT nl>
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Subject: Re: [opendos] BAD Filesystems 
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 18:31:36 +0100
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> 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.

Doens't DOS use the enviroment buffer for this?
If it does, you can change the size of the buffer with: "shell=command.com
/e:512", now you have a 512 bytes buffer, instead of the deafult 256 bytes.
Anyway, if your line does go beyond 128 characters, I think you might be
doing something wrong :-)

	Yeep