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From: bennete@romana.cs.orst.edu (Erik J. Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Shells
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Date: 2 Jan 89 19:52:07 GMT
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Reply-To: bennete@romana.cs.orst.edu (Erik Bennett)
Organization: Oregon State Universtiy - CS - Corvallis, Oregon
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I ran into a problem yesterday with a dillon/drew shell.  I had a REALLY
big .zuu file that I needed to download from a unix system.  Because of
the size, I used the unix 'split' which spilts a file into 1000 line chunks.
Upon the completion of this download (10 hrs @ 2400 baud), I typed:
cat >foo.uue bar.z*
and it didn't work.
the command line truncates at some finite point (255 char?). The questions:
1) Is there a way around the 255? char limit?
2) Is there a shell that doesn't have this problem?
3) Am I the only one in the western hemisphere who considers this a problem?

Thanks, (happy 1989), may we see lots of neat stuff for the machine this year.
-Erik
bennete@romana.cs.orst.edu