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From: elkies@osgood.harvard.edu (Noam Elkies)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Space limit on bc programs
Summary: bc runs out of program space
Keywords: bc, dumb bug
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Date: 14 May 89 03:22:16 GMT
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Reply-To: elkies@zariski.harvard.edu (Noam Elkies)
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Is there any way around the space limit that causes bc to terminate
with `program too big on line <number>, [teletype|<filename>]'
whenever I try to load more than ~200 program lines?  (This is on
a SUN-3 or SUN-4; we do not have source code for bc or dc.)

--Noam D. Elkies (elkies@zariski.harvard.edu / ELKIES@ZARISKI.BITNET)
  Dept. of Math., Harvard Univ.

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