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Re: Maximum # of program arguments
Excellent, thats exactly what I wanted to know. Thanks.
"Nicholas Wourms" <nwourms@yahoo.com> wrote in message
20020718110831.33071.qmail@web21004.mail.yahoo.com">news:20020718110831.33071.qmail@web21004.mail.yahoo.com...
>
> On WinNT/2K/XP the maximum length of the command line in cygwin is 8K.
> For some reason, it is 256K in Win9X/ME. Still, you should probably limit
> yourself to 8K for maximum portability.
>
> Cheers,
> Nicholas
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