To: mmeyer AT rts DOT dseg DOT ti DOT com (Mark Meyer)
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Definitive GNU fileutils ports 
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 94 09:12:33 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>

> 	This is what I have.  Eli, are you using the GNUish sh
> (version 1.64) as well?  I've also heard mention on this list of go32.
> What's that, and where would I find it?

There is a newer version of ms shell v2.3.  Look on SimTel in the
sysutil directory.

> 	Well, I have a complaint.  The last time I tried to rm a
> number of files (y'know, 'rm sh*.tmp', that sort of thing), I got
> bitten by DOS's 127-character command line limit.  (God, what a stupid
> limitation.)  The docs for the GNUish sh say that it can be told which

First, you can use the [] construct (like rm *.[ch]) to help you with the
127-char limit.  Second, you can run make (GNUish or DJGPPish) to overcome
this.  With GNUish rm, you should use GNUish Make which can pass the arguments
in the environment.  DJGPP Make will only pass long argument lines to DJGPP
programs, so it's no good with others.  And no, GNUish programs don't
understand the @response-file thing.