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From: aglew@mcdurb.Urbana.Gould.COM
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Subject: Re: Endian wars - really 386 questi
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Date: 2 Feb 89 17:18:00 GMT
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Nf-From: mcdurb.Urbana.Gould.COM!aglew    Feb  2 11:18:00 1989


>(Quick: who's run into Unix's 10K command-line limit?)

I `have` - ie. I have produced overlong commands using backquote
expansion. Although I seem to remember that the limit was considerably
smaller at the time (on a V7 hybrid running csh).
    I ran into so many of csh's built-in limits that I almost 
completely abandoned it for serious programming - although I still
used in interactively.

Limits make liars about the people who say that UNIX tools, pipes
and backquotes, provide composability of modules. Hurrah for 
Richard Stallman and his campaign to make it possible to let
the limit on filename size be infinite! Death to System V's
14 character filenames!


Andy "Krazy" Glew   aglew@urbana.mcd.mot.com   uunet!uiucdcs!mcdurb!aglew
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