maximum commandline length

[John W. Eaton]

On  6-Mar-2001, Daniel Heiserer <address@hidden> wrote:

| how long can a commandline for the parser be?

Octave does not place an explicit limit on it.

| I ask, because I want to know how large data can be, which  I pass to
| octave via the commandline like this:
| 
| 
a=[23,23,23,23,23,23,23,23,23,23,23,23,23......;..,..,..,..,.........;.......];

This is a very inefficient way to insert large amounts of data into
Octave.  It is better to use a data file.  If you have really large
amounts of data, binary data files are better.

jwe



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