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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
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Posted: Thu Aug 23 00:15:27 1984
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Reply-To: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA
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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
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