spawn failed

[Paul Keogh]

I received the following error message while trying to make a large library
under MSC 6.0 from the nmake utility:

	NMAKE:fatal error:spawn failed:arg list too long

Is there any way to increase the size of permissible arg lists ? Nothing is
obvious from the scant documentation that comes with MSC 6.0 - I've had this
problem with exec() in Unix where the arg list length is defined in the
source and you can't do anything about it except free up some of your
environment space - eg. shorten the PATH. Is it the same for DOS and if so
what is the size of the maximum arg list ?

As a first time user of MSC 6.0, I'm nervous about the amount of postings
mentioning bugs in this compiler - Is there a list available from anywhere
which documents known bugs and a method of obtaining patches/updates from
MS or elsewhere ?

Thanx,
Paul Keogh
keogh at u.nix.ie