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From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: How to enter long command lines
Message-ID: <BgDXT2w163w@cybrspc>
Date: 9 Dec 90 18:34:34 GMT
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steve_a@verifone.com writes:

> I need a way of entering a very long command line from the DOS prompt.  I'm
> running a list of input files to particular program through a batch file and 
> list is being truncated.

Under 4dos, you can get 256 characters. Command.com allows 128 (as you
have found).  Beyond this, I think you're out of luck.

MKS Toolkit does a neat hack with appending command line args to the
environment, but your program would have to know they are there, and
your command interpreter would have to put them there.
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