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From: ucbked@athena.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Long command lines
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Date: 29 Aug 90 05:17:36 GMT
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In article <2954@mindlink.UUCP> a269@mindlink.UUCP (Mischa Sandberg) writes:

>that seriously improves on MS's command shell. It can only put
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Valley speak?

Perhaps "seriously" means something different in your region.  I'm not
a math major (I teach Japanese).  256 is twice 128, what DOS usually
permits.  The MKS korn shell permits 5120 chars, 40 times the usual DOS
limit.  In the mathematics I learned while an EE major, 40 is larger
than 2 by a factor of 20.  Not being an authority on "valley speak," I
don't know the alphanumeric association between "seriously," "awesome,"
"humongous," etc.

>Why they limit it to 256 bytes I haven't the foggiest. 4DOS

Probably because the twit who wrote the programme never needed more
than 256 bytes for anything he/she did, and because he/she never did
anything more than compile the routine he/she was working on.

Thought for the day:

Programming is too important to leave to programmers.


Earl H. Kinmonth

History Department          Centre for Japanese Studies
Univ. of California         Univ. of Sheffield
Davis, California 95616     Sheffield, England S10 2TN

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