Re: Shell - argv limits

2017-06-28 Thread JB via use-livecode
No I have not but it is certainly very interesting info. Thank you, JB > On Jun 28, 2017, at 5:43 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > wrote: > > JB wrote: > > > When using argv it has a character limit. I think it > > might be different on different systems but you can > > probably use a f

Re: Shell - argv limits

2017-06-28 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
JB wrote: > When using argv it has a character limit. I think it > might be different on different systems but you can > probably use a few thousand characters for each > argument. You can have as many arguments as > memory can handle. Probably thousands. You > should refer to a file for large

Re: Shell - argv limits

2017-06-28 Thread JB via use-livecode
I am guessing the is a pretty large number. JB > On Jun 28, 2017, at 4:45 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode > wrote: > > On 06/28/2017 04:06 PM, JB via use-livecode wrote: >> When using argv it has a character limit. I think it >> might be different on different systems but you can >> probabl

Re: Shell - argv limits

2017-06-28 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 06/28/2017 04:06 PM, JB via use-livecode wrote: When using argv it has a character limit. I think it might be different on different systems but you can probably use a few thousand characters for each argument. You can have as many arguments as memory can handle. Probably thousands. You sh

Shell - argv limits

2017-06-28 Thread JB via use-livecode
When using argv it has a character limit. I think it might be different on different systems but you can probably use a few thousand characters for each argument. You can have as many arguments as memory can handle. Probably thousands. You should refer to a file for larger data. If you want to