[arachne] Re: Maximum length of PATH
- From: "Greg Mayman" <gmone@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:45:39 +1030
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On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:12:37 +0000, Udo Kuhnt wrote:
> However, there is a second limit that nobody on this list seems to be
> aware of: Since PATH is an environment variable, its length is also
> limited by the size of the environment space. So if you have set /E:384,
> then all environment variables together cannot become larger than 384 B.
I was wondering when someone would notice that <GGGGGGGGGGGGG>
> But it is rather interesting to read that MS-DOS 7 uses a much larger
> command line buffer. I always thought that 128 characters is too
> short, particularly when running programs that had originally been
> developed for Unix.
I ran into a 127 byte limit when entering stuff from the keyboard, but
the 1023 limit in batch files.
Why should they be different.....
Yeah, I know: it's just because they are <GGGGGGGGGGG>
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