From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Where does command line length limitation come from?
Date: 2 Mar 2001 16:12:00 GMT
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Philip Boucherat <boucheratp AT teccon DOT co DOT uk> wrote:

> Is this limitation something in the shell or is it built in to the tools
> I built? 

It's in the shell. command.com, the Win95 command interpreter, has a
rather strict command line length limit. But DJGPP programs *among each
other* can pass virtually arbitrarily long command lines.

Calling DJGPP's gcc from a Makefile executed by DJGPP's port of GNU
make allows command lines of around 16K characters (more with a bit of
tweaking).
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.