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Subject: Re: Beckmeyer C-shell bug (was: Source for a system() routine needed)
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References: <13021@felix.UUCP> <1845@chinet.UUCP> <13782@felix.UUCP>
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Reply-To: db@hoptoad.UUCP (David Beckemeyer)
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In article <13782@felix.UUCP> preston@felix.UUCP (Preston Bannister) writes:
>In article <1845@chinet.UUCP> dag@chinet.UUCP (Daniel A. Glasser) writes:
>
>On further investigation, you're right...sort of.  The problem, as it
>turns out, is that the Beckmeyer C-shell does not handle very long
>single arguments.
>
>The MWC system() passes through the string given to it as a single
>argument.  I.e. the call:
>
>	system("foo bar baz");
>
>Becomes a call to the default shell with the following MWC extended
>argument list appended to the environment (assume the SHELL environment
>variable is set to 'shell.prg', the iovector is approximate):
>
>	ARGV=CCCA??????????????????
>	shell.prg
>	-c
>	foo bar baz
>
>Note that the string passed to the system() call is passed through as
>a single argument.  
>
>I had the SHELL environment variable set to 'csh.prg', the Beckmeyer
>C-shell.  When csh was given a single argument longer than 127
>characters, it truncates the argument.
>
>The shell supplied with MWC (msh) can handle single arguments that are
>longer than 127 characters.


Thanks for brining this to my attention.  I was not aware that 
Micro C-Shell did not handle individual arguments longer than
127 chars.  I'll look it, and if after further investigation I find
that this is indeed the case, I will fix it.


	David Beckemeyer
	Beckemeyer Development Tools
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