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Article #3478

Re: Expand DOS prompt?

#3478
From: George Jetson
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1992 01:01
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In article <1992Oct3.203012.23118@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
>In article <92276.135321ISSSEG@BYUVM.BITNET> <ISSSEG@BYUVM.BITNET> writes:
>>Appearantly DOS prompt only allows 128K (characters).  I need to know
>>how to expand DOS prompt beyond 128K using DOS and not and external
>
>Please explain here in the newsgroup why you need this.  I genuinely
>ask because that way the readers might better try to solve the
>actual problem you have.  Or is this rather just an (interesting)
>exercise for its own sake?

Actually, it is a little hard for me to understand why anyone would want
to have a prompt longer than 131072 characters anyway, so I assume this
is just a puzzle question.

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From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson)
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Subject: Re: Expand DOS prompt?
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