On Monday 29 May 2006 09:55, Ralph Blach 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, > but never in the "IX's" such as AIX, Linux, Solaris, .... . > > Could the knowledgeable Trilug community comment on this? > > Thanks > > Chip
Chip, Compiling a package this morning, part of the configure script outputs: checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 32768 Ron -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
