   windows XP command line size limit
  Although related to my programming, this isn't strictly a programming question.I've noticed that there is a limit to the number of characters I can put in the "target" text field of the properties of a windows shortcut.Some of my command line parameters can be quite large as they include directory paths. Am I able to increase the size of the text field, or do I need to rewrite my program to read the data from a config file of sorts?   
  I think you should seriously consider just referencing config files.;  According to this source, How to avoid Max Command line size on Windows, the maximum size of the command line is 8192 bytes. Other sources claim the limit is actually 8190 bytes. However, the documentation for CreateProcess suggests that the command line on XP can be up to 32K in length. MAX_PATH on W2K. As the AP suggested, a config file or a batch file is probably a better approach. ;  If anyone cares, I ended up going with XML and I'm using tinyXML as the parser.If you're going to be using XML and you have no idea, don't even bother lookinga at the example code that is distributed with tinyXML. Just search for "tinyXML tutorial" and there's one on gamedev as the first part of a series of articles on making a game moddable.   