tar .vs. cpio - (nf)
Barry Margolin
barmar at mit-eddie.UUCP
Thu Aug 23 14:15:27 AEST 1984
In article <3948 at brl-tgr.ARPA> gwyn at brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <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).
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Barry Margolin
ARPA: barmar at MIT-Multics
UUCP: ..!genrad!mit-eddie!barmar
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