[TriLUG] How many character are allowed on the command line?

[Ron Joffe]

On Monday 29 May 2006 09:55, Ralph Blach wrote:
> I am taking a class in computer science and the professor seems to
> indicate the the maximum number of character one can enter from the
> command line is 256 in both Windows command prompt  and the "IX's"
> command prompt.
>
>  From long ago, I seem to remember that this was  256 characters was a
> limitation of the DOS command prompt in Windows at one time,
> but never in  the "IX's" such as AIX, Linux, Solaris, .... .
>
> Could the knowledgeable Trilug community comment on this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Chip

Chip,

Compiling a package this morning, part of the configure script outputs:

checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 32768

Ron