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From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: >2.0 Command Line limit (Was: Help...Children Process)
Message-ID: <18689@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 8 Feb 91 01:09:33 GMT
References: <1991Feb7.200500.6693@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Feb7.200500.6693@nntp-server.caltech.edu> tll@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Tal Lewis Lancaster) writes:
>For example using Lattice/SAS's LMK is one example where I have crashed the system
>and hard-drive because a command line was too long.  True, SAS could modify
>LMK to not do this.  

You are right; it sounds like you found a bug in LMK's command
line extension code.  I hope you told them.  (I hope you would tell us
about similar bugs if/when we add the same kind of code.)

No one's immune to bugs, and the SAS solution internally isn't
that far from how anyone would have to do it.

			andy
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