Call System Character limit Windows vs Unix

Brian Turner 1 month ago

I am moving a bunch of programs from Unix to Windows and have found that there is a 130 character limit for the using keyword vs 250 on Unix machines.

That is randomly breaking things. Is there some workaround for this?

Brian

0 Tom Morrison 1 month ago

Brian, what version of RM/COBOL for Windows are you using?
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0 Brian Turner 1 month ago in reply to Tom Morrison

V 12.20

Just installed it a few months ago.

The pertinent error code seems to be 204
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0 Tom Morrison 1 month ago in reply to Brian Turner

Well, the docs say 4096 is the limit, without reference to OS. This has been a 'squirrelly limitation' for years, unfortunately.

Is it a so-call DOS command, or a Windows command?

Have you contacted tech support?

Not sure what a 204 means. Windows docs mention (decimal) 203 and 205!

Can you reduce the characters needed by using a CMD file?

I know I do curl commands on Linux that are quite large, but I use the ability of curl to use files to specify some parameters.
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