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From: ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET (Julian F. Reschke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TOS Command Line
Message-ID: <91130.112854ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET>
Date: 10 May 91 12:55:11 GMT
References: <LPmL22w164w@ersys.uucp>
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Organisation: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, Germany

In article <LPmL22w164w@ersys.uucp>, ersys!mforget@nro.cs.athabascau.ca (Michel
Forget) says:
>
>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...:)                  >>

The true limit for Pexec() is 124 characters. If you need more, should
use the ARGV method, as documented by Atari and used in many *nix-like
shells.

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