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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 04:01:18 -0000
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Sorry about previous empty mail.

>> 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.

The real limit is not 16KB. If the program evalutes very long command
line in the response file, it runs under bash with unlimited command
line at bash prompt. But you may get an error caused by stack
overflow before the limit.

Daisuke Aoyama
jack AT st DOT rim DOT or DOT jp