Blair Campbell escreveu: >> About command line limitation: NDOS/4DOS and newer command.com place >> complete, untruncated command line into CMDLINE environemnt variable. > > What does everybody think about FreeCOM supporting this? Of course, > it is possibly useless without C runtimes supporting it.
IMHO, FreeDOS is a matter mostly of compatiblity and existing programs. If you implement something new, it is not very likely that it will be used. One reason being that making a program for FreeDOS that doesn't workk on MS-DOS sounds like nonsense to me ;-) > Which leads to another question: how do DJGPP-compiled shells pass > arguments? Cuz in BASH, the commandline can be as long as you want. > (Provided you're calling other DJGPP programs, of course). FreeCOM > could possibly support this way to improve compatibility with DJGPP > apps. Same as above IIRCm djgpp can simulate internaly the unix behaviour, including the expanding of "*". This is important because it is needed for porting *nix apps to dos. Alain Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
