Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!apple!netcomsv!rcb From: rcb@netcom.COM (Roy Bixler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: TOS Command Line Message-ID: <1991May9.164540.26103@netcom.COM> Date: 9 May 91 16:45:40 GMT References: Sender: netnews@netcom.COM (USENET Administration) Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services UNIX System {408 241-9760 guest} Lines: 30 In article steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) writes: >[In article , > ersys!mforget@nro.cs.athabascau.ca (Michel Forget) writes ... ] > > >> All that's necessary is that the parent process and the child process agree > >> on whatever extended argument-passing convention is in use. > > > > Uh-oh. I am trying to pass long command lines to RZ.TTP (The Zmodem File > > Transfer Program) for batch Uploading and Downloading. The problem with > > the limit becomes obvious when you realize how few pathnames can be put > > on an 80 (or even 125) character command line. I wrote a program that > > will capture the command line when it is run and display it, and will try > > it on other programs that use SZ. I don't think that it supports the > > XARG convention you mentioned. Any other ideas? > >In that case you need to find out what compiler was used to make the RZ/SZ >programs. My guess would be Mark Williams, whose argument-passing scheme >is explained somewhat in the EXARG.DOC file. But that's just a guess. Not correct. I compiled it with GNU C ver. 1.37. From what I've heard, it supports the extended argument passing scheme of Atari. > ---- > Steve Yelvington, Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota, USA / steve@thelake.mn.org -- Roy Bixler rcb@netcom.com -or- (UUCP) uunet!apple!netcom!rcb "Just when you think you know it all, it changes!"