richard@calvin.spp.cornell.edu (Richard Brittain) (03/05/90)
If anyone is interested, there is an implementation of xargs currently in comp.os.minix. It works just fine under msdos, with the proviso that the maximum allowable command length must be computed as 127 - length of "%COMSPEC% /c " I know this is a pretty trivial program to write, but I just realized that it can be very useful paired with Rahul Dhesi's "stuff" program ("find" lookalike) The above patch is left as an exercise to the reader. You need to have getopt() to compile it. Richard Brittain, School of Elect. Eng., Upson Hall Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 ARPA: richard@calvin.spp.cornell.edu UUCP: {uunet,uw-beaver,rochester,cmcl2}!cornell!calvin!richard