Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] -z "proto, colinfo, var, var" feature without al l the args?

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 15:12:59 -0800

On Nov 18, 2003, at 2:48 PM, HOOD, Andy wrote:

Try a different shell without the limitation? bash maybe?

Unless the limitation is in the kernel, not the shell, in which case there's not much he can do without changing OSes (or OS releases, if IBM has boosted the limit).

SunOS 4.0 had a 1MB limit on command-line arguments back in the mid-to-late 1980's. It's too bad that a number of UNIXes *still* haven't caught up....