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From: daveb@rtech.UUCP (Dave Brower)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Shells, features... (really environment)
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Date: Fri, 22-Nov-85 04:45:05 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 22 04:45:05 1985
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Rob writes:
> ...a few
>Kbytes of extra environment are probably cheaper than adding a directory
>to PATH.

Does this mean the 8th edition also changes the 5120 character
environment and argument space limit?  I very often run with about 4k of
environment, and it's oh, so fun to watch things fail to run because
there's 1k (1/2 screen) of arguments.  Is anyone else having these problems?

If my aliases and functions were in there too, I think I'd need > 20k.


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