Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 18:41:02 +0300
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Subject: Re: Bash 2.05 buffer overrun problem
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> Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 11:22:11 -0400
> From: "Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org>
> 
> Note that the ENVIRONMENT size (/E:) is allowed to be up to 32768.  I 
> think that is the size you need to allow for.

That's the upper limit, but it is for all of the variables combined.
An individual variable's value cannot be larger than 1024 on Windows 9X;
if you try, you will crash COMMAND.COM.