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From: emmo@moncam.co.uk (Dave Emmerson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Problem with DOS 4.01 COMMAND.COM batch files -- comments wanted
Keywords: command.com environment batch crash
Message-ID: <405@marvin.moncam.co.uk>
Date: 3 Feb 90 01:41:53 GMT
References: <OTTO.90Jan23132123@tukki.jyu.fi|
Organization: Monotype ADG, Cambridge, UK
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In article <OTTO.90Jan23132123@tukki.jyu.fi|, otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) writes:
| I have discovered a bug in COMMAND.COM on MS-DOS 4.01, which I believe to
| exist in several other versions (I've had similar problems on 3.30).
|  
| You can crash the system if a batch file line expands to over 127 characters
| [deleted]
| []  Anyone at MicroSoft,
| where could I send a report of this ?

I may be wrong, but I heard MS have gotten out of DOS, so I doubt if
they'll be interested. Try using 4DOS, it will at least give you 256
characters, maybe more, I'm only just trying it out myself (LIKE IT!).

Dave E.