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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.bugs.sys5,comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: Does tail still need the 4K byte limit?
Message-ID: <1555@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 4 May 89 05:53:41 GMT
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>from "trace tail -3 /etc/hosts" on sun os 4.0.1:
>
>Looks like it picks the last 32k ...

Credit where credit is due; this comes from 4.3BSD.  The limit there is
a fixed 32K....