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From: tw@omssw2.UUCP (tom walsh)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: problem with tail -3540
Message-ID: <499@omssw2.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 21-Sep-86 01:57:58 EDT
Article-I.D.: omssw2.499
Posted: Sun Sep 21 01:57:58 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 21-Sep-86 22:16:18 EDT
References: <917@gilbbs.UUCP>
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Organization: Intel Corp., OMS Div., Systems Group, Hillsboro, OR
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Keywords: tail, pipes, trouble

In article <917@gilbbs.UUCP> mc68020@gilbbs.UUCP (Thomas J Keller) writes:
>
>   For some reason, expire doesn't trim my history file when it runs.  This
>results in a rather largish history file accruing in my lib/news directory
>pretty quickly.  I tried to use tail to  trim the head end off of the 
>history file and output the result to another file, but it won't work.
>I typed:
>tail -3540 history > newhist
>what I get is the last 72.? lines of history.  Interestingly enough, the
>output file is *ALWAYS* 4096 bytes in length.  On my system, that is the
>size of a pipe buffer (am I saying that right?).  In any case, I can't see
>any reason why this should be the case.
>Oh...I am running XENIX 3.0 on a Tandy 6000.
>please ***HELP***??????
>Disclaimer:  Disclaimer?  DISCLAIMER!? I don't need no stinking DISCLAIMER!!!
>tom keller					"She's alive, ALIVE!"
>{ihnp4, dual}!ptsfa!gilbbs!mc68020
>(* we may not be big, but we're small! *)

there is an array declared of size 4096.
sorry, but it's not my fault...
-tw
ps: my employer did not cause this either.
pss: there are similar problems with dd and skip/count/bs

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