Q33629: "Illegal Function Call" SHELLing to More Than 124 Characters

Article: Q33629
Product(s): See article
Version(s): 3.00 4.00 4.00b 4.50
Operating System(s): MS-DOS
Keyword(s): ENDUSER | B_BasicCom | mspl13_basic
Last Modified: 16-DEC-1989

The SHELL statement takes a string expression of 124 characters or
less. QuickBASIC Versions 4.00 4.00b and 4.50 for MS-DOS, the BASIC
compiler Version 6.00 and 6.00b for MS-DOS or MS OS/2, or Microsoft
BASIC PDS Version 7.00 for MS OS/2 and MS-DOS give an "Illegal
function call" error message for longer strings.

In QuickBASIC Version 3.00, the same limitation applies; however, the
string expression is truncated without any error message if it is
longer than 124 characters. If the string is longer than 271
characters in QuickBASIC Version 3.00, a "string space corrupt" error
message results.

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