[m-rev.] for review: mercury.bat

[Fergus Henderson]

On 20-Apr-2001, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > > +%MC% ... %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
> > 
> > Does this limit us to only passing 9 arguments to the compiler?
> 
> Yes.  DOS batch files really suck, don't they?
> 
> I'll fix that.  For Windows you can use "%*".

Hmm, it turns out that only works with Windows 2000, not 95.
Win 95 does at least support %10, %11, etc., so we can at least
increase the limit.

The idiot who designed the DOS command shell language should be
condemned to a lifetime of doing something really, really awful.

-- 
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                                    |  of excellence is a lethal habit"
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