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From: dillon@CLOUD9.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Shells
Message-ID: <8901022315.AA04197@cloud9.berkeley.edu>
Date: 2 Jan 89 23:15:19 GMT
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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

	The problem stems from BCPL limitations.  BCPL command strings
can only handle something 202 chars (I think), with a theoretical limit
of 255.  This limitation doesn't apply to C programs but I chopped it
in my shell.

	(2) Maybe, I dunno.  I suppose I should get off my butt and 
allow C programs to have a larger limit.  Nothing anybody can do about
the BCPL programs.

	(3) No, I remember a couple of years ago complaining about
this too.

					-Matt