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From:	"Andreas Eibach" <aeibach AT mail DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	'The system cannot execute the specified program' (again)
Date:	Sat, 8 Nov 2008 01:13:43 +0100
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Hi,

after a little odyssey in the net, I've finally found the culprit why my
batch-capable small C application does not accept longer lines than (about)
189/190 characters, which makes it very unusable for recursive operation
through a vast directory tree.

This old thread from 2006:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.msdos.djgpp/msg/7cd2a771e5bc44fc?hl=en&dmode=source

finally brought some insight that djgpp uses a 16-bit stub that will make
any 32bit program _look_ like a 16 bit app for MSDOS.
Is there - after 2 years - still no way to circumvent this (compiling
options?) apart from silly workarounds I already read about in the thread
from 2 years ago?

Second question: Would it be *theoretically* possible to live without that
16bit stub, so that 32bit programs are also recognized as 32bit?

I can only say I *DO* need very long lines in my batch file, because people
with deep directory trees do not even need to have directories with a
certain number of characters, but only the grade of tree depth will
automatically make paths quite long.

If djgpp does not support this, maybe I should look for mingw32, because
that 16bit thing really annoys me.

-Andreas

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