RE: Command line length on Win2000

[David Stubbs]

Hey,

Cmd.exe still has a line length limit though, somewhere in the region of
8k. I believe the 2000 char limit was in command.com. However, I'm led
to believe that even CreateProcess suffers a limit of around 32k it's
not a nice situation really.

Dave.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:make-w32-
> address@hidden On Behalf Of Shah Bijal
> Sent: 12 May 2003 17:39
> To: Geoffrey Tam; address@hidden
> Subject: RE: Command line length on Win2000
> 
> 
> This doesn't sound right.... I'm running win2k and can get command
lines
> of well over 2000 characters.
> 
> Did you build your make or download it? Is it actually a DOS build of
make
> or a Windows 2000 build?
> 
> Also, check COMSPEC and SHELL environment/make variables to see if
they
> are pointing to CMD.EXE.
> I would upgrade to the latest gmake too - 3.76.1 quite old in the
scheme
> of things!
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoffrey Tam [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: 12 May 2003 17:14
> To: 'address@hidden'
> Subject: Command line length on Win2000
> 
> 
> I am running into command line length problems on Win2000 when running
> gmake. On Win98, I used command.com as my shell, and could use roughly
120
> characters in my make commands. On Win2000, this has been reduced to
about
> 96 characters. Are there any shells out there that will greatly expand
> from
> 120 the number of characters I can use in my make commands? I am
currently
> running version 3.76.1 of the make utility.
> 
> I have also noticed that hand typing in the make commands that don't
work
> from make works on Win2000.
> 
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