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IIRC on Unix the line should be shorter than 512 characters. I suppose a similar limit exists on Win32, but I don't know. I've used up to twenty or so names on a line in Windows [just as a hack: I don't rely on /etc/hosts files; I use DNS :-]
IIRC on Unix the line should be shorter than 512 characters. I suppose a similar limit exists on Win32, but I don't know. I've used up to twenty or so names on a line in Windows [just as a hack: I don't rely on /etc/hosts files; I use DNS :-]