To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	How to suppress '@' command-line parsing?
From:	max AT alcyone DOT darkside DOT com (Erik Max Francis)
Date:	Tue, 30 May 95 11:12:40 PDT
Organization:	&tSftDotIotE

As per my previous question, I understand now that DJGPP-compiled (or is 
it just GO32-exected?) programs automatically parse command-line 
arguments which begin with the at ('@') character as list files.  There 
is clearly good reason for this; MSDOS's limit on command-line lengths is 
absolutely pitiful and insufficient for doing any serious development 
work.

Now the problem is that this '@' prefixing is fairly common in the real 
world, so other people doing development under DJGPP/GO32 (such as 
myself) would like to do the same thing.  The problem is, I'd like to 
extend the functionality, such as by supporting default filename 
extensions (i.e., the command-line argument @foo looks in the file 
foo.ini for further instructions), or modifying the content of what's 
contained in that list file.

I can escape the sequence by enclosing it in double quotes, but this is 
rather inconvenient.  Is there any way to turn off this functionality in 
the executable that I build (which has GO32 built in), but, naturally, 
leaving the functionality alone for other programs?

Thanks.


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