Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!mtxinu!taniwha!paul
From: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Fun with Dick and Jane
Keywords: cp, sash, mfs, hfs, ulimit
Message-ID: <400@taniwha.UUCP>
Date: 1 Aug 89 15:54:48 GMT
References: <10936@polya.Stanford.EDU> <1989Jul30.031813.751@servalan.uucp> <1320@motmpl.UUCP>
Reply-To: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Organization: Taniwha Systems Design, Oakland
Lines: 19

In article <1320@motmpl.UUCP> ron@motmpl.UUCP (Ron Widell) writes:
>A word of caution here- A/UX is SysV derived and thus has the ulimit
>parameter. I don't remember what it is by default (and my docs. are not at
>home) on A/UX, but on most SysV machines it's 2048 blocks = 1 Mbyte. It's
>rather unpleasant to have a large file transfer abort after 1 Mbyte because
>of this limit. In any case you'll still want to compress prior to the
>transfer.

In A/UX you can use kconfig to change the base ulimit (set CDLIMIT) value
and hence save yourself having to worry about the problem


	Paul

-- 
Paul Campbell    UUCP: ..!mtxinu!taniwha!paul     AppleLink: D3213
"Free Market": n. (colloq.) a primitive fertility goddess worshipped by an
obscure cult in the late 20th C. It's chief priest 'Dow Jones' was eventually
lynched by an enraged populace during an economic downturn (early 21st C).