Re: STRPCCMD PCCMD parameter maximum length

[Wim <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(did not try anything, i am just here for the ideas)

first off: nothing would be long enough but the guy(m/f) who invented 
123 should be invited for a little chat on his career in software 
design  (probably the guy(m/f) deservs a medal because he/she found 123 
bytes somewhere in a data structure where another girl(m/f) forget to 
reserve room for strpccmd in the first place (i should write a book))

now:

a: Can you create a .bat file in the IFS and execute that?

b: Would it be possible to create an environment variable in several 
strpccmd steps and finally execute that:

<CL SOURCE>
chgvar &command  value("mozilla 
http://www.this.is.too.long.command.etcetera";)

strpccmd cmd('envvar='  *tcat %sst(&command 1 100))
strpccmd cmd('envvar=´%envvar%'  *tcat %sst(&command 101 100))
strpccmd cmd('envvar=%envvar%'  *tcat %sst(&command 201 100))

strpccmd cmd('%envvar%')
</CL SOURCE>

b works in the cmd shell. Also, i know that strpccmd is using the 
environment variables of the terminal emulator which should be static 
between strpccmd calls.

regards,

Wim


Patrick L Archibald wrote:

> Hey
>
> I'm sending a long URL, about 150 characters, from the AS/400 to a PC 
> with the STRPCCMD command.  The maximum length of the PCCMD parameter 
> is 123 characters.  Is there anyone besides me that would like to have 
> the length extended to 256 or 512?  Maybe we can get IBM to lengthen it.
>
> Thanx, PLA
>
>
>
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