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From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
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Subject: Re: Need input for future DOS release
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Date: 29 Mar 90 03:28:32 GMT
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In article <261106AB.2583@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) writes:
>
>$6) A larger command line limit.  This would allow paths with length
>$greater than 128 chars.
>
>   This would be nice ... but it would be internal to DOS.  The command line
>passed to programs is found in the PSP, which has been the same size since
>day 1.  The only way around this would be to have DOS put the command line
>in two places - one being the PSP, for backwards compatibility, and the
>other being ... where?  It can't be static because then it would be over-
>written if you shelled out from your program and ran something else.

A natural spot would be in the environment segment, just after the name of
the currently executing program.   

Duncan Murdoch