Hi Donald,

you asked:

 DH> But when executing a DOS command that is longer than 85 characters, OS/2
 DH> gives a SYS016, which means the paramaters passed to the DosExecPgm() are
 DH> wrong.

Hmm, here it's sys1059: The system cannot execute the specified program. I
think it's originated by the path's which will be preceeded by the
loadmodules, since:

  system ("command.com /c prog.exe args ..... ");
                                             ^ 86 chars long

will not work, whereas

  system("command.com /c prog.exe args ...... ");
                                             ^ 85 chars long
does work and notably:

        system("c:\\os2\\mdos\command.com /c prog.exe args ..... ");
                                                                ^ the same
using the same args and length as above, still works, although the
"argument" to system() is definitely longer than in the first
example.

 DH> Is this a known limitation? If yes, how can I work my way round
 DH> it?

DosExecPgm does not work either.

  DH> I'm using Borland C++ for OS/2 version 1.00.

Independent of PC, here Borland 1.0 as well. IBM Cset 2.01 produces exactly
the same result.


73 es cuagn,
Henk

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