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Matt Armstrong	20 Dec 2001 12:30
Jerjiss, Allen	20 Dec 2001 12:45
Mike Steed	20 Dec 2001 12:51
David Abrahams" <david.abrahams@rcn.com (David Abrahams)	21 Dec 2001 16:48
Craig McPheeters	29 Dec 2001 15:34
David Abrahams	29 Dec 2001 15:47

Subject:	[jamming] Replacement command shell for Win32?
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Date:	12/21/2001 04:48:33 PM
List:	com.perforce.jamming

Note also that in many cases (e.g. when your command is multiple lines), the command goes through a .bat file, which on Win2K has a maximum line length of 2047 characters.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Armstrong" <matt+jamm...@lickey.com> To: <jamm...@perforce.com> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 3:30 PM Subject: [jamming] Replacement command shell for Win32?

WinNT and Win2k can pass command lines up to 10240 bytes big, but there are cases where cmd.exe barfs with a buffer that long. So bumping the MAXLINES setting in jam.h can lead to problems. E.g. cmd.exe's own del and echo commands can't handle anything longer than about 1k.

Does anybody know of a nice little command shell for Win32 that could do the job? Preferably it'd be free and come with source. I'm thinking of a native port of one of the free unix Korn or Borne shells, or maybe something more windows centric.