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From: emmo@moncam.co.uk (Dave Emmerson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Commandline length?
Summary: a suggestion
Message-ID: <329@marvin.moncam.co.uk>
Date: 22 Dec 89 11:57:52 GMT
References: <510@tnosoes.UUCP> <2870@water.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Monotype ADG, Cambridge, UK
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> In article <510@tnosoes.UUCP> joep@tnosoes.UUCP (Joep Mathijssen) writes:
> >Using Gulam and make, I want to link a program using TURBO-C.
> >But there are so much .O-files that must be linked, that my list of
> >files is not processed correctly. I think the commandline is limited to
> >only 80 characters. It this a ST- or Gulam-limit?
> >And how can I solve it?
> 

I don't know about on the ST, but I have a vague recollection that some
implementations will accept a '/' or a '+' to force continuation on the
next line.

-Don't flame me if I'm wrong, I'm just trying to help...


Have a good Christmas all,

Dave E.