Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!pacbell.com!decwrl!nsc!amdahl!suresh
From: suresh@uts.amdahl.com (Suresh Padmanabhan)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: File arguments too long!
Summary: with reference to the 'file arguments too long' message
Keywords: ftp mget
Message-ID: <60fB01F=8aO.00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 14 Jun 91 22:30:21 GMT
References: <1991May31.095227.24060@actrix.gen.nz> <1991Jun11.195147.9696@solbourne.com>
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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From postnews Fri Jun 14 15:26:52 1991
> In article <1991Jun7.222936.24697@ucselx.sdsu.edu> syserror@bugs.zoo writes:
> >Sometimes when using FTP, after using an 'mget *.xyz'  I get
> >the message 'File arguments too long' whereupon none of the get 
> >or put commands will function anymore.
> 

>> A variable is used to limit the number of file-arguments when wildcard
>> expansion is performed. I have encountered that same message when this
>> variable was defined as a short. This value gets initialized to a value
>> greater than the defined storage and thereby becomes negative. The
>> solution is to define this variable as an unsigned int.

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suresh