From: Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: RHIDE command line limit
Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 19:23:54 -0400
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Rich J wrote:

> On Sun, 9 May 1999 14:41:11 +0300, "Pavlos" <trash24379 AT usa DOT net>
> wrote:
>
> >I *think* that it might be a DOS limit.
> >Maybe old versions (<7.0) do not support more chars in command line?
> >Are you running under a DOS prompt or just pure DOS?
> >I really don't know if this can help, if you want, you can try it.
>
> It is a DOS limit (of 126 characters) but the faq says that the latest
> versions of the binaries work round the problem.  I'm now using the
> latest stuff but the problem still happens whether I'm in a DOS shell
> or not.  It's the Windows 98 DOS shell so it must be the latest
> version.

    AFAIK, the newest version of DJGPP, as long as you have all of the newest
components, it should support way more than 126 characters on a command-line.
Make sure you don't have version conflicts between the linker and rhide.
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