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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-xfer.mccc.edu!news-xfer.netaxs.com!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!ddsw1!not-for-mail From: font@MCS.COM (Font) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Is there a line length limit? (2.2.1) Date: 9 Apr 1997 23:13:08 -0500 Organization: MCSNet Services Lines: 17 Message-ID: <5ihpck$h8p$1@Mars.mcs.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: mars.mcs.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38836 I'm using FreeBSD 2.2.1 and programs which accept input from stdin, such as cat, won't accept lines longer than about a thousand characters. If I pipe these characters instead of typing them, everything works. This happens under /bin/sh and /usr/local/bin/zsh. Is this something in the kernel? I don't remember ever having run into this before. Whether I'm typing stdin to awk, doing a "read line" from /bin/sh, or even doing an fgets(s, sizeof(s), stdin), I run up against the thousand character barrier when typing in input (actually I'm scripting it most of the time, but you know what I mean). My ISP uses FreeBSD 3.0 and doesn't exhibit this problem. But I'm not prepared to go to CURRENT. I hope I didn't miss something obvious. -- font@mcs.net Wishes are like dishes.