Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!mit-eddie!barmar From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: tar .vs. cpio - (nf) Message-ID: <2571@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Thu, 23-Aug-84 00:15:27 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.2571 Posted: Thu Aug 23 00:15:27 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Aug-84 07:17:25 EDT References: <226@haddock.UUCP> <2541@mit-eddie.UUCP> <3948@brl-tgr.ARPA> Reply-To: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 13 In article <3948@brl-tgr.ARPA> gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn) writes: >There is a (relatively small) limit on the total length of >command line options, typically 5120 bytes. I have lots of >archives whose component file names far exceed this limit. I guess I'm completely spoiled by Multics. I'm used to command lines that can take up a 1 megabyte segment and stack frames that can handle argument lists that have up to 16K parameters (64Kwords/max-stack-frame, two pointers/parameter, 2 words/pointer). -- Barry Margolin ARPA: barmar@MIT-Multics UUCP: ..!genrad!mit-eddie!barmar