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In article <5aBo02FSad0201@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> kim@uts.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) writes:
>One related question I've asked several times, but still have not seen an
>answer to ... under 2.0, can command lines longer than ~255 chars be passed
>to Exec() ... or must file handling programs still be "builtin" to a shell, or
>do their own wildcard expansion if not, in order to handle directories with
>moderately a large number of files in it?  Could someone at CBM who knows,
>please comment?  Andy?  Randell?

	Command lines should be able to be longer as used by System and
Execute.  This hasn't been extensively tested as of yet, but it was a
factor in design.  Path lengths are still constrained by the 255 character
limit to BSTRs, due to the packet formats.  At some later date I have plans
to eliminate that as well (no time for 2.0).

	The console may be able to handle longer than 255 character lines
now, I'm not sure (but I suspect it still has some hard limit).

	Wildcard expansion is much easier to do now, due to matchfirst/
matchnext.

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