Hi Andreas, > Are there any documented limits for environment variables in DOS? > > My implementation uses a static buffer. So the content changes with > every call to getenv. This is explicitly allowed by the standard. > > I don't want to make the buffer too large though, since space > is so limited in small mode. Currently either the name or the content > may not be larger than 126 characters. If the name is longer, it is > not found. If the content is longer, it is truncated.
Additionally to Ralf's answer this book might be handy for the future: http://www.borncity.de/Library/DOSProgHB.PDF (in German only) It's not "the best", but fairly okay. Robert Riebisch -- +++ BTTR Software +++ Home page: http://www.bttr-software.de/ DOS ain't dead: http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
