Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 06:30:28 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
> Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 11:48:54 -0400
> 
> > What does this result (the loop stops at 16) mean in the terms of the max 
> > command-line length?
> 
> At 16, it means the script thinks the max length is 147457.

So it still is larger than the transfer buffer, and thus the results
of the test are wrong.