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From: debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Endian wars - really 386 questi
Message-ID: <8875@alice.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 89 04:03:34 GMT
References: <30@microsoft.UUCP> <28200266@mcdurb> <24318@amdcad.AMD.COM> <7877@boring.cwi.nl>
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In article <7877@boring.cwi.nl> dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes:
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> | (Quick: who's run into Unix's 10K command-line limit?)
> +---------------

Try "compress /usr/lib/tex/fonts/*" or whatever command with the full path
of all files in a large directory. Quite annoying that you have to cd to
the directory, and even then the expansion of "*" may yield more than 10K.

Paul.
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