From 7bbd11fe6d3aa8419a11e9d4c618d04f25a6b3c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jay <jay>
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 14:53:15 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Modified documentation of "-s" option to take into account
 the fix for Debian bug #176201.

---
 xargs/xargs.1 | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xargs/xargs.1 b/xargs/xargs.1
index 0665bec..b598b23 100644
--- a/xargs/xargs.1
+++ b/xargs/xargs.1
@@ -93,8 +93,10 @@ command.  Normally, the command is run once even if there is no input.
 .I "\-\-max-chars=max-chars, \-s max-chars"
 Use at most \fImax-chars\fR characters per command line, including the
 command and initial arguments and the terminating nulls at the ends of
-the argument strings.  The default is as large as possible, up to 20k
-characters.
+the argument strings.  The default is 20480 characters, not including
+the size of the environment variables (which are provided for
+separately so that it doesn't matter if your environment variables
+take up more than 20480 bytes).
 .TP
 .I "\-\-verbose, \-t"
 Print the command line on the standard error output before executing
-- 
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