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Article #9178Re: Turbo C Linking Problem
From: Ralf Brown
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1990 01:03
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1990 01:03
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In article <3173@plains.UUCP> cooper@plains.UUCP (Jeff Cooper) writes:
}I use 4DOS, it allows 255 characters on the command line, and also lets
}you use aliases (like csh on UNIX).
Unfortunately, only the first 126 characters of the command tail can be
passed to external programs; this is a limitation of DOS. Unless the program
has been written to check the CMDLINE environment variable, it won't see the
rest of the command line.
Of course, the longer command line means that the program name doesn't reduce
the length of the command tail that can be passed to the program (since
COMMAND.COM uses a DOS call which is limited to 127 characters to get the
input line).
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