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From: rmacgreg@cs.strath.ac.uk (Sorcerer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TOS Command Line
Message-ID: <6499@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk>
Date: 9 May 91 14:09:11 GMT
References: <LPmL22w164w@ersys.uucp>
Organization: Comp. Sci. Dept., Strathclyde Univ., Scotland.
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In article <LPmL22w164w@ersys.uucp> ersys!mforget@nro.cs.athabascau.ca (Michel Forget) writes:
>Does anyone know how to use the Pexec function so that it will take a 
>command line longer than 80 charactes.  I am writing a program that will 
>require longer command lines, but I'm stumped on this one.  The 
>documentation that I have does not mention anything about command lines 
>longer than 80 characters, yet they are possible...
>
>
><<  ersys!mforget@nro.cs.athabascau.ca  >>
><<  or in the language that PEOPLE use  >>
><<  Michel Forget...:)                  >>

There are 2 methods, Xarg and Exarg, which you use depends on how you feel, cos
from what I can see they do the same job.  I'll leave descriptions to the 
experts as I cannot remember how to do either of them.

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