Bernie,
I didn't say DOS chose the size of the string. That's what the word
"immaterial" means!
Now you may not appreciate my "layman's explanation" of how a program
design would bypass any DOS limitation. But you do owe me the respect
of at least reading what I wrote. [P.S. if "pipe burst" isn't the
equivalent of "packets" then what is it??]
In all cases the tenor of my message was/is/and ever shall be that
the program running on the system is what decides how information is
passed to a website, and *not* any DOS limitations, real or imagined.
A number of us have, for a number of releases, asked why string lengths
were still so limited and thus Arachne crippled. The response was
always "it uses memory"; but in recent releases memory usage has
dropped, so shouldn't there *finally* be room to store string lengths
that we're running across on more and more websites???
l.d.
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On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 18:15:10 +0100, Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> L.D wrote:
>> However, even if a URL exceeded the maximums allowed by DOS, it's
>> immaterial; the DOS software simply needs to send the string in what
>> amounts to 'packets' ... breaking it up into pieces that DOS can
>> swallow, and uploading it that way until the field is completed and the
>> EOL character [or other delimiter] sent.
>> i.e. the character strings in a GIF file far exceed what you could put
>> on a DOS command line; that's immaterial. It gets sent in pieces and
>> saved in pieces and then processed in pieces. And we see a GIF
>> picture.
> Ok, I'm taking a big risk here with being seen as rude <g> - but you have
> NO idea what you are talking about.
> The size of the command-line is irrelevant for programs except when they
> get started - they may get too few or incorrect arguments if the line is
> too long. One way to solve this is to do as ex. some DJGPP programs and
> send the arguments in a file.
>> Where a problem can occur is if the software refuses/is unable to store
>> the full length of something.
> Correct, but the *programmer* chooses the size as long as there's enough
> memory available (in the given memory model) - not DOS.
> //Bernie
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