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Posted to dev@ant.apache.org by em...@amadeus.net on 2000/09/06 10:08:36 UTC
Re: [PATCH] Allow ant.bat to have an unlimited number of command
line arguments
Hi folks,
Can't we use %* instead of all the %1 %2 %3....? Works under NT4. Don't know
about Win98/95.
Cheers,
:E
From: glennm@ca.ibm.com on 05/09/2000 22:11 GMT
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Hey all.
The current ant.bat file has a limit to the number of command line
arguments it can handle. This usually isn't a big deal, but sometimes you
need to specify a lot of -D options, and it will choke after too many.
Well, more precisely the later ones are ignored. This patch slurps all
the command line arugments (using set, goto, and shift) into an
environment variable, passes them onto Main.java, and cleans up the
environment var when its done.
Warning: I haven't tried this on Win98, I only have a WinNT box a work.
I'm going to try Win98 tonight at home. If it works for 98, it should
work for 95.
Glenn McAllister
Software Developer. IBM Toronto Lab, (416) 448-3805
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