Re: [hylafax-users] large number of fax destinations

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 11:45:06AM -0400, Russell P. Sutherland wrote:
> I have read that it is preferrable to use multiple
> numbers/destinations on the sendfax command line. E.g.
> 
> 	sendfax -n -d 4164441111 -d 9053331111 -d 416222111 ./faxfile.ps
> 
> rather than three separate commands:
> 
> 	sendfax -n -d 4164441111 ./faxfile.ps
> 	sendfax -n -d 9053331111 ./faxfile.ps
> 	sendfax -n -d 41622l1111 ./faxfile.ps
> 
> How many -d numbers can/should one place on the commandline?

There's a limit to how many characters a shell command line can have,
compiled into your bash.

People have posited adding a new option switch to pull destination
numbers out of a specified file, allowing the bypass of this problem,
but apparently the limit's high enough that no one's actually needed to
*do* it.  Just remember to put the -d's *last*.

Cheers,
-- jra
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