On Mon, 29 May 2006, Russell Harrison wrote:
I know I've done bash one liners that wrapped at least a full screen of
text. There had to be a good 1000 chars in that one "line".
On 5/29/06, Ralph Blach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am taking a class in computer science and the professor seems to
indicate the the maximum number of character one can enter from the
command line is 256 in both Windows command prompt and the "IX's"
command prompt.
From long ago, I seem to remember that this was 256 characters was a
limitation of the DOS command prompt in Windows at one time,
I seem to remember it being 128 for DOS.
gnu configure does a test of the max number of chars on a
command line. You could try configuring something like gcc
and watch for the test. I seem to remember it being about
4000.
Joe
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