"Jason House" <jason.james.ho...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:gq2dv9$2vn...@digitalmars.com... > Walter Bright Wrote: > >> Frank Benoit wrote: >> > DMD 1.041 on windows does support response files, that is a file >> > containing arguments. >> > On Linux dmd does not understand that. >> >> The windows response files date back to the problem DOS/Windows had with >> only a very short command line length was allowed. So the arguments were >> put into a file instead. >> >> It's probably a good idea to do it for Linux, too. > > Ick. Why? Command files are hacks for Window's shortcomings. Why spread > such hacks across all platforms? The linux command line is already well > adapted to handle this kind of thing.
Sometimes command lines get too long to keep typing (obviously). You *could* solve that with a shell/batch script, but then that would be specific to a particular shell/OS. As long as the app you're using is reasonably cross-platform, then a response file is completely shell/OS-agnostic. Response files may have originated as a workaround, but that doesn't mean they didn't turn out to have additional benefits.
