I remember that in past versions of Windows, 'cmd.exe' imposed a
draconianly short command line on Cygwin console. I was wondering
whether the limitation applied to Xterm windows, as well. I have become
quite adept at using xargs to avoid this limit. However, I was writing
something about Cygwin and I thought it time to reverify.
So, I ran a little test, on both console and Xterm bash windows, and
discovered that command lines > 260,000 characters are acceptable to
_console_. (Xterm yields the same results.) I still haven't determined
the upper limit.
I am running Vista 64 Home Premium (Ver 6.0 Build 6001 Service Pack 1;
AMD 64 Quadcore), and Cygwin DLL ver 1.5.25-15.
Is this something "new" to Cygwin, or Windows Vista 64? As of which
version of what?
Sorry to be so anachronistic.
So, once, again, Cygwin is better than I "remember"! ;-)
BTB, at least one document turned up in a Google search (of documents
dated in the last year) indicated that GNU/Linux had a 128KB limit, and
Cygwin, under XP, a 32KB limit!
Lee
Lee Rothstein
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