Hi David,
> xelatex -max-print-line=2048 -c-style-errors -interaction=batchmode
> "\def\istwocol{1} \input{./tmpmyfile.tex}"
The option -max-print-line does not exist. The env. variable
max_print_line can be used:
max_print_line=2048 xelatex -c-style-errors -interaction=...
Best,
Akira