From: Sven Utcke <utcke@tu-harburg.de>
Subject: Re: Looking for AWEB; TeX in Ada?
Date: 1999/03/12
Date: 1999-03-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36e959b2.0@pfaff.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7ca3gl$bp8$1@news.interlog.com
"Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com> writes:
> unlikely such as C:\GNAT\LIB\MING32XYZ\3.2.1 added to it; however, MS-DOS
> has always had a severe limit on the amount of memory it allows for
> environment variables -- including PATH -- so I altered AUTOEXEC.BAT as
> needed, but my PATH was only getting partially set, because Windows (in DOS
> mode) was running out of environment variable memory (with my so
> far?);
The latest DOS I used was 5.0, in which you had both a limit on the
amount of memory reserved for environment variables (which could be
increased by setting an argument to command.com, look there), and a
128 (127?) character-limit for the path. There were tools to get a
longer path, but you did not have any guarantee that programs would
interpret that path correctly.
> job providing upward compatibility); but you (almost) never get any of this
> kind of silliness with the UNIX-based operating systems; I'm a great critic
> of UNIX, but this is one of the things UNIX got really right from the start
Actually they didn't. It's just that the limit is 1024 characters (at
least under IRIX 6.3), so you're less likely to be bitten.
Not that this has anything to do with litprog...
Sven
PS: to make this somewhat more relevant to litprog, I would strongly
urge you to try one of the language-independent tools. I myself
am using FWEB, which I like; but if I were starting all over again
I would probably go for noweb, which is somewhat more powerfull
(although more complicated to setup and use, quite the opposite of
what Norman envisioned).
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-03-08 0:00 Looking for AWEB Nick Roberts
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Looking for AWEB; TeX in Ada? Nick Roberts
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Sven Utcke [this message]
1999-03-15 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
1999-03-15 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
[not found] ` <7cooqo$mdf$1@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
1999-03-17 0:00 ` AWEB; Enhanced Document Encoding Mike Harrison
1999-03-17 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1999-03-18 0:00 ` Sven Utcke
1999-03-19 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-19 0:00 ` Sven Utcke
1999-03-22 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-22 0:00 ` Sven Utcke
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Sven Utcke
1999-04-10 0:00 ` Patrick Mérissert-Coffinières
1999-04-13 0:00 ` Martin Kew
1999-04-13 0:00 ` nospam!bob
1999-03-22 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-03-21 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1999-03-19 0:00 ` Laurent Gasser (CSCS)
1999-03-25 0:00 ` FREDERICK LONG
1999-03-17 0:00 ` Looking for AWEB; TeX in Ada? Laurent Gasser (CSCS)
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