[TriLUG] How many character are allowed on the command line?

[Randall Barlow]

Ron Joffe wrote:
> Compiling a package this morning, part of the configure script outputs:
>
> checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 32768
>   
I would add that I /think/ this may mean 32,768 arguments, not 
characters, but I'm not sure on that one (anybody care to counter?)  I 
suppose perhaps we should make some scripts to test which it is ;)

R