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> Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 12:00:46 -0400
> From: "Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org>
> 
> One other thought, based on my lack of knowledge:  Does that 1024 limit 
> include the variable name?  Could there need to be an allowance for a 
> name + 1024 of value?

1024 includes the name and the equals sign.  (I actually tested that
on Windows 9X, because the long command-line support in CVS uses the
CMDLINE environment variable to pass command lines to Windows
programs.)

Again, this is only true for Windows 9X (and ME, I'd expect).  I don't
know what happens on Windows 2000 and XP.