From: rj AT nospam DOT spider-man DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (Rich J)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: RHIDE command line limit
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 21:35:23 GMT
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On Sun, 09 May 1999 19:23:54 -0400, Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca> wrote:

>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.

When you say 'version conflicts', which versions should I be using?
As far as I'm aware I've got the latest versions of everything.  I
downloaded them from delorie.com a couple of days ago.

I have RHIDE v1.4, GCC 2.8.1 and LD 2.8.1

Any more help you can offer would be much appreciated.

Rich.



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