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  2. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!elam.mdl.sandia.gov!cs.sandia.gov!jhgreen
  3. From: jhgreen@cs.sandia.gov (Jethro H. Greene)
  4. Subject: How do you increase the wordsize in csh?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec29.212152.19032@cs.sandia.gov>
  6. Followup-To: poster
  7. Originator: jhgreen@cs.sandia.gov
  8. Sender: jhgreen@cs.sandia.gov
  9. Organization: Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
  10. Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 21:21:52 GMT
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  13. In ksh/bash/sh, there is no limit to the size of a variable.  For example,
  14. a=`cat /etc/passwd` is ok.  However, csh gives the error, "Too many words from
  15. ``".  Can this be fixed?
  16. -- 
  17. Jethro H. Greene
  18. Massively Parallel Computing Research Laboratory,
  19. Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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