Jonas Maebe wrote: > I'm not sure where exactly 119 fits in here, unless length(binstr) > (full path to your copy of ar) around 120 chars or so.
0 1>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/fpcsrc$ which ar /usr/bin/ar About enough room for the path to ar, some options, and a couple of filenames. > And it's clear that if not a single file name fits in this string, > this is going to produce an endless loop of empty "ar" invocations > (as you experienced)... Yes, I thought it was going to end up something like that... :-/ -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
