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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,demon.ip.support.unix
From: mark@kram.org (Mark Turner)
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pipex!uknet!nessie!demon!clio.kram.org!mark
Subject: Re: tin says out of memory
Organization: Kram
References: <CAMv3L.4LA@kram.org> <CAnCpz.E30@demon.co.uk> <CB8wzB.EFI@demon.co.uk> <23pfv1$gc@azrael.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1993 19:29:09 +0000
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In article <23pfv1$gc@azrael.demon.co.uk> blade@azrael.demon.co.uk (Ji Kim) writes:
> 
> I don't have the original article but you can get more mileage from
> your memory if you use
> 
> limit datasize unlimited    (this works only in csh)

Thanks, this works fine. :) Is there a similar thingy in bash?

> or alternatively use a C proggie to set the limit using setrlimit,eg.

This seemed to have no effect. :(

Regards,

Mark.
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