DOS Applications and Parameters

[beredon]

Sorry, but I can't find a more DOS-related forum.

Does anyone know if there is a limit to the number of parameters a DOS application can accept? Ignoring constraints from different programming languages, etc. Is there a limit at all?

I'd like to just know if it is limitless, or if there is an actual maximum number of arguments a DOS program, or DOS itself, will parse to the application.

 

[LegoArtist]

I'm not sure if there's a hard limit on the number of parameters you can use, but you DO have to worry about the length of the command line. Once you've reached that limit, you're done. I believe the command line is limited to 256 characters unless you configure DOS differently.