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From: "Mike Kasprzak" <mike DOT kasprzak AT dicecanada DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Maximum # of program arguments
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 09:57:30 -0400
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Excellent, thats exactly what I wanted to know.  Thanks.

"Nicholas Wourms" <nwourms AT yahoo DOT com> wrote in message
news:20020718110831 DOT 33071 DOT qmail AT web21004 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT 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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