Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: "Mike Kasprzak" Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Re: Maximum # of program arguments Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 09:57:30 -0400 Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <20020718110831 DOT 33071 DOT qmail AT web21004 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: h64-187-15-29.gtconnect.net X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1027000648 6427 64.187.15.29 (18 Jul 2002 13:57:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet AT main DOT gmane DOT org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 13:57:28 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Excellent, thats exactly what I wanted to know. Thanks. "Nicholas Wourms" 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/