Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 12:57:07 -0600 (CST)
From: "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
Reply-To: "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
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cc: yeep <yeep AT xs4all DOT nl>
Subject: Re: [opendos] BAD Filesystems 
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On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, yeep wrote:
> > There's a limit in DOS of 128 characters for the command line, after all
> 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.

No, the environment is a totally different animal, I have a 1024 byte
environment envelope and my command line is still limited to 125
characters, the environment can be used to pass additional commands to the
program via the SET command, but the two are otherwise separate.

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