Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Merging 700 capture files

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:13:48 -0700
Ian Schorr wrote:
With 700 files you may also run into limitations of the length of commands you can generate at the command prompt, depending on your platform/shell/etc,

...which is *really* annoying, given that in about *1986* or *1987* or so SunOS 4.0 supported a megabyte of command-line arguments. Many UN*Xes *still* have lower limits, after almost 20 years....