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From: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT praline DOT no DOT NeoSoft DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Command Lines > 2000 bytes?
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 22:00:55 CDT
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> So my question is: Is there any possibility to pass longer command lines than
> (4K - environment_size) to gcc?
> 
> Or is there any possibility to increase the transfer buffer size?
> 
> The makefile worked under 1.11 - Maybe the problem is related to a difference
> between 1.11 and 1.12?

Yes, this behavior was changed for V1.12, and it has caused some problems.  
I took a version of V1.11m5 and stubedited it so I could build GDB to get
around this problem.  Since GO32 is a dead program (goes away in V2) there
is no incentive to fix it.