I did some more digging... Found a wikipedia article discussing it [1] but maybe more interesting was a german text on 4dos tips[2] apparently Windows 95 only put the rest of the command line in CMDLINE. And it makes sense that it was introduced because of long file name support. With LFN 127 characters for a whole command seems very little.
I agree with Bernd it could potentially be very dangerous... Since we recommend OW as the compiler in FreeDOS, it would be important that OW supports it. I'll see what I can do about creating a patch for them :) it would be good to get it standardized already in the compiler, that way we could probably get even more adoption for it. Rugxulo, do you know if IA-16 GCC also supports it? If not it should probably also be patched... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_variable [2] http://www.antonis.de/dos/dos-tuts/mpdostip/html/4dostip.htm -Wolf -- |\_ | .\---. / ,__/ / /Wolf <wolf+...@bergenheim.net>_ On Mon, Jun 3, 2024 at 10:58 PM Rugxulo via Freedos-devel < freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Jun 2, 2024 at 7:33 AM perditionc--- via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > > DJGPP is where the cmdline env and extended command line processing is > from I think, that or 4DOS. > > it's been a while, but it was based on and made to function like > existing implementations. > > I think it was a Win95 feature originally. (But yes DJGPP supports it.) > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >
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