Message-ID: <000601be0691$344ae260$d42c1ec8@enterprise-z> From: "Jorge Ivan Meza Martinez" To: Subject: System help Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 15:37:01 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hello, I am using the stdlib's System to make a call to an external program, the Java intepreter like: sprintf ( args, "Java %s", other_string ); system ( args ); args goes Ok; but System is limited, if you use a short args it goes Ok, but with longs args it doesn't work; from the libc help I think that System would not be limited to the 126 characters, but it appears to be limited. Can you help me to use System with longer than 126 strings ? thank you, Jorge Ivan Meza Martinez jimeza AT usa DOT net jimezam AT armenia DOT multi DOT net DOT co jimeza.home.ml.org