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Re: [TCLUG-DEVEL:71] Interesting side note



On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 07:02:55PM -0600, Bob Tanner wrote:
> Just an FYI.  It looks like tcsh allows only 1000 char per
> environmental variable.  Using bash I am sitting at 1045 characters
> for the environmental CLASSPATH.
> 
> Might be 1 more reason to switch to bash.

	*chuckle* If Linux is like other UNIXes in this regard, there's
a hard upper limit on the total amount of space for all environment
variables.  Of course, it should be in the 8-16Kb range.

Have fun (if at all possible),
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