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From: john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Question about terminal input buffering
Message-ID: <1991Feb9.225929.4447@jwt.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 91 22:59:29 GMT
Organization: Private System -- Orlando, FL
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Why, when doing something like "cat > file" and typing input from the
keyboard, are long lines truncated?  On my System V box, it appears
as though the first 256 characters of a long input line are discarded
when I look at "file".
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John W. Temples -- john@jwt.UUCP (uunet!jwt!john)