On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 09:50:32PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote: > > I've created a new 4.2 Project page for "response files", which is > what Microsoft calls files that contain command-line options. > Conventionally, if you pass "@file" as an argument to a program, the > file is read, and the contents are treated as command-line options.
Huh? That should certainly be a feature of the shell, not the OS. > On systems with small command-line buffers, this is a must-have > feature. Do you really want every application to work around a broken propritary system? Looks like gcc is really heading down the wrong way..