From: i_b_malone AT yahoo DOT com (imalone) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: spawn() problem. Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 11:28:46 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, England Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3b07aa1c.2422421@nntp-serv.cam.ac.uk> References: <3405-Fri18May2001104125+0300-eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> <2427-Fri18May2001125319+0300-eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> <3b065312 DOT 2872240 AT nntp-serv DOT cam DOT ac DOT uk> <3277-Sat19May2001194548+0300-eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> NNTP-Posting-Host: ibm21.acad.cai.cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Thanks, now I've got somewhere to start from. On Sat, 19 May 2001 19:45:50 +0300, "Eli Zaretskii" wrote: >> From: i_b_malone AT yahoo DOT com (imalone) >> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp >> Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 11:09:17 GMT >> >> Incidentally, is there any way of calling a program with a command >> line longer than 128 characters if it wasn't compiled by djgpp? > >It depends on the program being invoked. > >Programs compiled with Windows compilers usually look at the CMDLINE >environment variable if the normal DOS command tail says the command >was too long. DJGPP will support invocation of such command in the >next release, but you could code it itself if you are desperate; the >information is in Ralf Brown's Interrupt List. > -- "You have viruses, but I have resistance, and I am alive, and you- are dead." Ken Macleod The Star Fraction