NIELIT 2016 DEC Scientist B (IT) - Section B: 10

Question

The maximum combined length of the command-line arguments including the spaces between adjacent arguments is:

• A. $128$ characters
• B. $256$ characters
• C. $67$ characters
• D. It may very from one Operating System to another

Answer 1

ans : d . it vary from operating system to operating system

Answer 2

Answer C. It may vary from one operating system to another

 

Microsoft Windows NT Advanced server 3.1 and Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.1 accepts 128 characters

Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 200 accepts 2046 characters

Windows XP accepts 8191 characters

Likewise the number of characters that the command line can have differs for Windows, UNIX, LINUX, DOS etc. As we can see from the details given for Windows version, as the version changes the number command line arguments also change. The latest version always accepts more number of command line inputs