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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 10:49:12 +0100
From: Peter Rosin <peda AT lysator DOT liu DOT se>
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Subject: Re: Interesting footnote about environment variables block
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On 2014-02-14 08:50, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, All!
> 
> I just found this document:
> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/ntcmds_shelloverview.mspx?pf=true
> 
> At the very bottom of it, you may find the note:
> 
>> The maximum total environment variable size for all variables, which
>> includes variable names and the equal sign, is 65,536KB. 
> 
> Which seems to be in disagreement with
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682653(v=vs.85).aspx
> (And consequently,
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682425(v=vs.85).aspx
> )
> 
> I don't know, how it is applicable to Cygwin, but I find it interesting.

First one is for unicode, the other two for ansi. My guess anyway...

Cheers,
Peter


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