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Re: sed bug?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: sed bug? |
Date: |
Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:39:15 +0200 |
> Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:15:28 -0700
> From: Bob Proulx <address@hidden>
>
> The MS command interpreter passes the *.txt argument directly to the
> program the program is expected to expand it. This is related to a
> very short limit (IIRC 128 characters or something close to that
> limit) for command line arguments in MS systems.
The fact that the MS shell does not expand wildcards has nothing to do
with the command-line length limit. Not anymore, anyway: current MS
shells can handle at least 4K characters, and normally more (32K).
> So. What does that mean? It means that when programs are ported to
> MS the author doing the software port must make a decision. They need
> to decide should they include code to expand arguments or not?
No, they don't: that code is linked in by default.