JSI Tip 7565. What are the string length limitation in CMD.exe?
Jerold Schulman
December 15, 2003
1 Min Read
The following limitations apply to the command line, environment variables, including those that are inherited by other processes, such as PATH, and all environment variable expansions:
Operating System | Characters |
---|---|
Windows NT 4.0 | 2047 |
Windows 2000 | 2047 |
Windows XP | 8191 |
Windows Server 2003 | 8191 |
Future Plans | ????? |
NOTE: Even though the Win32 limitation for environment variables is 32,767, CMD.exe ignores any environment variables that are inherited from its' parent process that are longer that the above character limitation.
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