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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 10:40:27 -0800
From: Eric Monsler <emonsler@beamreachnetworks.com>
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To: Jonathan.L.Ericson@jpl.nasa.gov
CC: Mike Schuster <schuster@nuance.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: OT: long command lines
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Does anyone know how to find out the limit for a commandline, in a given
shell?  Other than trial-and-error?

And as a related issue, is there some way to find out, perhaps with
configure, the maximum value of argc that an environment supports (if
there is a limit)?

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