On 6/23/06, Alain M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Blair Campbell escreveu: > > That's not what I meant. You could still run the program on MS-DOS, > > but you would be able to pass a bigger commandline on FreeDOS with > > FreeCOM. Which there's nothing wrong with. > > Ok I understand now... What about the FreeCOM buffer size? > > > But it still has to pass arguments in a DOSy way, regardless. Maybe > > DJGPP apps have code that parses %CMDLINE% in their startup code? > > I don't think so, it works on regular MS-DOS. I believe that the startup
That doesn't mean that it won't work on MS-DOS. What I'm saying is that it could take %CMDLINE% and parse it in place of the PSP _IF_ it exists. Otherwise it would just parse the PSP as usual. > code takes the 127 char limited command line and delivers it to the app > in a way that a *nix app expects it to be (ie: expanded) so that the > program works as expected without needing to rewrite. But my memory is > not very good in this. > > Alain -- Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman (1947 - ) See ya 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
