Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site baylor.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!shell!neuro1!baylor!peter From: peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: Re: Microsoft vs. Lattice C Message-ID: <416@baylor.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 12:29:45 EDT Article-I.D.: baylor.416 Posted: Fri Aug 16 12:29:45 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 01:29:59 EDT References: <1343@drux3.UUCP> <553@utastro.UUCP> Organization: The Power Elite, Houston, TX Lines: 18 > lot of futzing around, I found I had to remove a "fix" that extended my > type-ahead buffer to 128 bytes, since the MSC compiler uses the (teensy) > environment to point to include, lib and .h files. Apparently there was > a conflict, and the compiler didn't check for one. It is the only program > (including two other C compilers) that has had any trouble like this. I have had this problem before, often enough that I leave the typeahead buffer at 16 bytes & used "ced" to handle multiple commands. > WHY are the environment space and the maximum command-line argument strings > so small? Were they set up for 64K machines and never changed? Probably. It's still a bad kludge, but then so is the MS-DOS environment handling generally. -- Peter da Silva (the mad Australian werewolf) UUCP: ...!shell!neuro1!{hyd-ptd,baylor,datafac}!peter MCI: PDASILVA; CIS: 70216,1076