steve_a@verifone.com (12/08/90)
I need a way of entering a very long command line from the DOS prompt. I'm running a list of input files to particular program through a batch file and my list is being truncated. Any Ideas? Steve Anderson VeriFone steve_a@verifone.com
roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) (12/10/90)
steve_a@verifone.com writes: > I need a way of entering a very long command line from the DOS prompt. I'm > running a list of input files to particular program through a batch file and > list is being truncated. Under 4dos, you can get 256 characters. Command.com allows 128 (as you have found). Beyond this, I think you're out of luck. MKS Toolkit does a neat hack with appending command line args to the environment, but your program would have to know they are there, and your command interpreter would have to put them there. -- Roy M. Silvernail |+| roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu |+| #define opinions ALL_MINE; main(){float x=1;x=x/50;printf("It's only $%.2f, but it's my $%.2f!\n",x,x);} "This is cyberspace." -- Peter da Silva :--: "...and I like it here!" -- me