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From: kneller@cgl.ucsf.edu (Don Kneller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS I/O
Keywords: Command line length
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Date: 15 Mar 89 18:15:30 GMT
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In article <16660@cisunx.UUCP> jlfox@cisunx.UUCP (James L Fox) writes:
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>Can someone tell me how to lift the 128 character command line length
>limit to PC/MS DOS?  I hit the limit with Microsoft C and a many filed
>program.  I hope I don't have to combine groups of files into libraries
>to avoid a CL or LINK command exceeding 128 characters!

For CL, you can use the "CL" environment variable to hold the compiler
flags.  For LINK, you have to use a response file (i.e. link @file,
where file contains the actual link commands).

- don
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