[E - 19 to 20 May 1998 (#1998-7)] Command Line Length

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On Thu, 21 May 1998 00:00:17 -0400, Terry Constant
<constant at FLASH.NET> wrote:=20

>4Dos allows a command-line length of 255 characters, 511 after expansion
>of environment variables.

>Apparently Euphoria limits the command-line to the Dos length of 128.

>I need to use the longer 4Dos command-line. Is there a way around this
>limitation in Euphoria?

Read the environment variable CMDLINE, rather than using the
Euphoria function command_line().

>If not, would it be possible to lengthen the command-line that Euphoria
>accepts in a future (fairly soon I hope) update/release?

I think this should be done under any circumstances.
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Jeff Zeitlin
jeff.zeitlin at mail.execnet.com

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