On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Randall R Schulz wrote: > Igor, > > At 15:24 2003-03-12, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Willis, Matthew wrote: > > > >... > > > > > which will run when I pass long arguments using bash.exe as my shell. I can > > > also pass long arguments to this program under cmd.exe. The only difference > > > seems to be that bash.exe fully expands argv[0] to the full win32 path name > > > and cmd.exe leaves it as myecho.exe. In both cases I was able to > > use command > > > lines over 2000 bytes long without problems. > > > >Matt, > > > >Just got another idea. See if this helps: > ><http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#AEN733> > > I believe the @argFileName syntax only works when a non-Cygwin program > invokes a Cygwin program. > > I cannot make the example given in the user guide section you mention > work as shown (under BASH). It does work when run from CMD.exe.
Randall, I believe we *were* talking about stracing the offending program under cmd.exe... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/