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From: asphgcm@cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA (Claude Mercier)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: alias on ibm-pc, anyone?
Message-ID: <1991Jan30.171009.16994@cid.aes.doe.CA>
Date: 30 Jan 91 17:10:09 GMT
References: <29520@usc> <1991Jan24.185021.11667@cabezon.uucp> <1991Jan29.100900.16693@uwasa.fi> <2701@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
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In article <2701@krafla.rhi.hi.is>, frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes:
|> In article <1991Jan24.185021.11667@cabezon.uucp> joee@cabezon.uucp
(Joe Eckardt) writes:
|> >There's a shareware program from a few years back call DOSEDIT which
provides
|> >alias support as a secondary feature.  It's primary purpose is to
allow command
|> >history scrollback and editting.  Works great.  I'd be lost without either
|> 
|> I use DOSEDIT all the time, but it has one serious flaw - it is not able to
|> properly handle characters above 128 on the command line.
|> 
|> -frisk
|> 

Tsk tsk tsk !!!

This, Fridrik, is a DOS flaw.  DOS's command line buffer is 128 bytes long.
Therefore, it is useless to feed it with a command longer than 128
characters.

Just worth my 2 cents.

--
Claude Mercier (asphgcm@cid.aes.doe.CA)
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