Re: [MacPerl] Too many arguments?

[Jeremy Lee <jeremy@cdsnet.net>]

I've been working on a program to extract audio file information, and I 
got it to work on over 600 files at once today.

on 6/23/98 12:59 AM , Jonathan Eunice  wrote:

>I'm running into a situation where drag-and-drop of file 
>arguments onto a MacPerl droplet fails silently.  If I
>drag and drop 25 files at a time, say, it works.  @ARGV
>contains the expected list of file paths.  If I drag 55 
>at a time, it fails...and I don't mean my program fails,
>but that even a simple 
>
>   print "hello, world!\n";
>
>fails to print anything.  I assume MacOS has some (apparently
>low) number of bytes allocated to holding the list of files,
>and I'm exceeding it.  Is there anything I can do about this?
>Probably a built-in constant, eh?  I would like to understand
>the mechanism, however.


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