On Feb 23,  9:49pm, Scott McClellan wrote:
> Subject: Re: MPE/iX Software Limits
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> >In 5.0 the CI's buffer was increased from 279 characters to 511 (1 byte
> >reserved
> >for a terminator character).  Gopi and I are interested in knowing who is
> >running into limits here and how big the command buffer needs to be.
>
> As Jeff said the CI variable limit has already been increased (as of
> 5.0) to 511 characters.
                      ^^^^^^^^
I think Scott means to say "command input buffer".
But since he mentioned CI variables, in release 5.5 CI string variable values
can be up to 1024 characters (up from 255 in 5.0).
 
> I would like to know if there are significant
> issues with 511 characters. It is obviously possible that there could
> be (especially considering the fact the HFS filenames can be up to
> 1024 characters in length), but we need information as to how the CI
> command length is effecting customers in the real world.
>
> Thanks....
> Scott McClellan
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