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From: williams@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Kent Williams)
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Subject: Re: MS_SH 1.6 utils...
Summary: Sorry Bub, Dos is Stoopid
Keywords: DOS STUPID MS-SH
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Date: 11 Aug 90 11:47:34 GMT
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DOS has a hard and fast limit on command line length of 128
characters.  The usual solution is to stuff the expanded command line
into the environment -- the MKS tools puts them first, without the
NAME= labels.  The Aztec C tools puts them last, after an equals-sign
with no NAME.

But without a widely followed standard, you're stuck.  In the
particular case of

		ls *

You're probably better turning globbing off, and letting ls do its own
expansion.



--
Kent Williams                    'Look, I can understand "teenage mutant ninja 
williams@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu    turtles", but I can't understand "mutually 
williams@herky.cs.uiowa.edu      recursive inline functions".' - Paul Chisholm