More than 79 characters in Create Batch File

[Kenneth Brody]

On 8/21/2014 4:17 PM, Richard Kreiss wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Filepro-list [mailto:filepro-list-
>> bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of Kenneth
>> Brody
[...]
>> On 8/21/2014 3:32 PM, Boaz Bezborodko wrote:
>>> When editing menus, how can I create a line that is greater than 79
>>> characters long without calling an external batch file?
>>
>> On *nix, use "\" to continue the line.  On Windows, since "\" is a perfectly
>> valid last character on a line, filePro uses "~" to continue to the next line.
>>
> Ken,
>
> Isn't there a limit, at least with the total length of the command line,
> when split to 2 lines?

MS-DOS had a limit of 127 (or was it 126?) characters.  XP and later have a 
limit of 8191 characters.

-- 
Kenneth Brody