More than 79 characters in Create Batch File

[Richard Kreiss]

> On Aug 21, 2014, at 5:32 PM, "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at spamcop.net> wrote:
> 
> 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
Does this mean that there can be more then 2 lines in a menu batch file? (8191/96 = 85.3 lines )

Richard