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Message-Id: <199710081838.DAA19996@mail.st.rim.or.jp>
From: "Daisuke Aoyama" <jack AT st DOT rim DOT or DOT jp>
To: "<Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: "<Davin Pearson" <d DOT pearson AT EXT DOT canterbury DOT ac DOT nz>,
"DJGPP ML" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: emacs problems
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 03:38:45 -0000
MIME-Version: 1.0

>> Is bash limited to 126-character command lines like COMMAND.COM?
>
>Are you using the DJGPP port of Bash?  If so, it is not limited to 126
>characters.  I have just tried "etags *.el" on my machine under Bash,
>and it worked.
>
>> If not, what is its limit?
>
>the limit is 16K bytes minus the size of your environment (more, if
>you stubedit bash.exe and enlarge its transfer buffer size beyond the
>default 16KB).  This is further explained in section 16.4 of the DJGPP
>FAQ list.



Daisuke Aoyama
jack AT st DOT rim DOT or DOT jp

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