From: Stephen W. <st...@ke...> - 2007-06-16 10:05:39
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"Nils Erik Svang=E5rd" <nil...@gm...> wrote: > Hello! > I use the Send-To menu item to send files to mplayer. > When I try to send more than 1685 files rox-filer complains: >=20 > Failed to execute child process > "/home/nisse/.config/rox.sourceforge.net/SendTo/Play Random/AppRun" > (Argument list too long) >=20 > Where apprun contains a row executing mplayer. There is a hard limit to the length of the arguments you can send to a program, set by the operating system. I forget what the limit is exactly= but 1685 file names with an average length of 40 characters is about 67K = and I doubt the limit would be more than 64K. You'll just have to accept that you can't send that many files to one program. --=20 Stephen Watson http://www.kerofin.demon.co.uk/ If you read this on a mailing list, send any reply back to the list and n= ot to me. Not even CC. Do you mind not farting while I'm saving the world? |