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Posted to dev@ant.apache.org by gl...@ca.ibm.com on 2000/09/06 00:11:22 UTC

[PATCH] Allow ant.bat to have an unlimited number of command line arguments

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
"An approximate answer to the right question is better than the 
right answer to the wrong question." - John W. Tukey