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From: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Long command lines
Message-ID: <2677@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: 29 Aug 90 17:38:54 GMT
References: <2954@mindlink.UUCP>
Organization: Data I/O Corporation; Redmond, WA
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In article <2954@mindlink.UUCP> a269@mindlink.UUCP (Mischa Sandberg) writes:
<4DOS does exactly that. 4DOS is a replacement for COMMAND.COM
<that seriously improves on MS's command shell. It can only put
<the firs 127 bytes into the PSP, but up to 256 bytes goes into
<the environment, coincidentally into a variable named "CMDLINE".
<Why they limit it to 256 bytes I haven't the foggiest.

Limiting it to 256 bytes only defers the problem for a little while...
A better limit would be 64k.