Gavin retorts:
>Bruce responds:
>> Gavin writes:
>> >Unix sucks.
>>...
>> If you link your MPE C program with LIBCWC.LIB.SYS before whatever
>> other libraries you normally use, the wildcard expansion is done by
>> the library so the command line length limitation isn't an issue
>> when an expanded file list includes hundreds or thousands of files.
>
>Um, doesn't this fail on the 1024th file?

No. It fails on the 1021st file, unless one or more of the files are in
the Posix namespace. It doesn't count -- or include -- those. (At least,
not with the C library version I'm running).

-- Bruce


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