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From: rob@viking.sheridanc.on.ca (Rob Naccarato)
Subject: pwd_mkdb limit solved
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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 13:14:57 GMT
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> I have written a perl script to format the file
> properly, but when I execute pwd_mkdb, it fails at about the 17779th
> record (there's roughly a total of 18000 records).  It complains about
> "line too long".  The line in question is not too long; there are other
> lines previous to this that are much longer.  Can someone help me out
> here?

Stupid, stupid, stupid little programming mistake on my part!  I forgot
to close the file before executing pwd_mkdb on it.  Funny how the error
was "line too long", though.

Thanks to all who emailed suggestions!

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Rob Naccarato
rob.naccarato@sheridanc.on.ca