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The Question is:

 
I have a C program that make a system call
and the command line argument is a string that could be greater than 256
 caracteres.
I have this program running on a Unix OS, and it was OK.
Unfortunately, when I run this program in VMS, it fails when the argument
 string is larger than 256.
I believe that this is a VAX/VMS limitation.
 
Is taht true, is there any workarround for this limitation?
 
Thank you
 
Laura Paiva

The Answer is :

 
  The use of C is not relevent here.
 
  DCL has specific limits on symbols and parameters -- please see the
  DCL documentation for details.
 
  Any of a wide variety of mechanisms -- probably most commonly files
  and mailboxes, of course -- can be used to pass input to programs.
 

  
     
     answer written or last revised on ( 22-AUG-2000 )
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