Thanks for the answer. Fred >Further empirical tests turned out that the environment in Windows NT is not limited, at least not up to a tested size of about 800K.
>But there is a big problem in Windows nevertheless. When using ASCII functions to access the environment, as Cygwin does, the environment is silently cut off at 32K. There's no error message or any hint in the documentation that something like this would happen when trying to retrieve the environment. Trying to start another process with an ASCII environment > 32K results in an error code returned by CreateProcess. So, for now you have to live with an environment < 32K. > >Corinna -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/