is perl better?

[Klaus Momberger]

"jon c" <jon_couchman at hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.28.1078507301.19534.python-list at python.org>...
> >>well the cammand is
> >>
> >>java -hotspot -showversion ...... -classpath loads of entries
> >>application-name
> >>
> 
.....
> the error is coming from windows!
> 
> the error message is as I wrote it.
> 
> if you try and execute the command directly from bat you get the error input 
> line too long!
> 
> can perl be somehow bypassing the windows terminal and running the command 
> directly (does this make sense?)
> 
you might try to define classpath as a system environment variable and
increase the environment buffer size using the /E:nnnnn option of
command.com.
It can be set from CONFIG.SYS with an entry like: 

SHELL=C:/WINNT/SYTEM32/command.com C:\ /P /E:4096 

or larger than 4096 in your case. 

Maybe this helps, 

-klaus