Re: [AD] a study of command line handling under dos and windows.

[Henrik Stokseth <hensto@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Henrik Stokseth wrote:

> note: one possibility of passing long commandlines from dos-make to 
> (the new) runner that comes to mind, is putting the commandline in an 
> environment variable and export it. then RUNNER could use that. i have 
> not examined if there are size limitations on environment variables 
> under older dos versions though. i don't like this idea at all since 
> the makefiles that uses it will get ugly. 

looks like djgpp make already uses this idea. it must have been 
implemented in one of the later versions. look here for additional info:

http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/v2faq/faq16_4.html

using djgpp make with "!proxy" enabled runner will then solve the last 
problem of running from pure dos. and that without the need to ugly up 
the makefiles. :-)

i will start working on the new runner utility and hopefully have it 
ready soon.

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