I think you need to explain a little more about how you are invoking the external command and passing the parameter list?

I'm able to pass comand lines of upto 32767 characters using system running AS under NT, and I doubt that XP has reduced this capacity, so I assume that you are using some other way of spawning the external comand and are running up against it's limitations rather than the OS per se.

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In reply to Re: Passing a very long parameter list to an external command in perl by BrowserUk
in thread Passing a very long parameter list to an external command in perl by dwhitney

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