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- From: chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: How do you increase the wordsize in csh?
- Date: 5 Jan 1993 15:05:19 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH (USA)
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- References: <1992Dec29.212152.19032@cs.sandia.gov>
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- In article <1992Dec29.212152.19032@cs.sandia.gov> jhgreen@cs.sandia.gov (Jethro H. Greene) writes:
- >In ksh/bash/sh, there is no limit to the size of a variable. For example,
- >a=`cat /etc/passwd` is ok. However, csh gives the error, "Too many words from
- >``". Can this be fixed?
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- This is not word size, but the size of an argument list.
- This particular limit cannot be altered without hacking the
- csh source. It's a manifest constant defined in sh.h
- (GAVSIZ).
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- Chet
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