Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 11:02:10 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: System help
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On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> The 126-character limit is built into DOS, and Windows doesn't (AFAIK)
> provide a good way to get around it.

Windows 9X does have a way around it (leave the first 126 characters
on the normal command-line tail, set the tail length byte to 7Eh, and
put the entire command line in the environment variable CMDLINE), but
DJGPP's version of `system' doesn't support this.

Any takers to add this?