Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 19:04:58 +0300 (IDT) From: Eli Zaretskii To: Oberhumer Markus cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: c1args.c patches In-Reply-To: <199709101443.RAA10700@is.elta.co.il> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Oberhumer Markus wrote: > xargs has the annoying limitation of the size of the transfer buffer > which makes it useless in many cases What limitation? As far as I remember, `xargs' knows what the maximum size of the args is, and if it gets more than that, it processes them in separate chunks. Besides, you could always stubedit `xargs' to make the transfer buffer larger, no?