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From: rreiner@yunexus.YorkU.CA (Richard Reiner)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: MS_SH 1.6 utils...
Message-ID: <13751@yunexus.YorkU.CA>
Date: 11 Aug 90 15:20:25 GMT
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weisen@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Neil Weisenfeld) writes:

>a command like: "ls *" (no quotes) would almost always end in the
>program exiting with an error like "c:/unixbin/ls.exe: arg/env list
>too long."  Has anyone come across this?  Is there any way to increase
>the environment size?

The problem is MS-DOS's 128-character command line limit: when the
shell globs your "*", the resulting list of names is over 128
characters long.  I don't know if this will work with uxutl162, but
using the PiCnix utilities one can get around this by doing e.g. "ls
\*", since the utilities can do their own globbing.