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From: Boyd Roberts <boyd@insultant.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] sam - string too long
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:13:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3fb20963$0$17106$79c14f64@nan-newsreader-02.noos.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86k766wyom.fsf@gic.mteege.de>

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"Matthias Teege" <matthias-9fans@mteege.de> a �crit dans le message de
news:86k766wyom.fsf@gic.mteege.de...
> Moin,
>
> I use sam under freebsd and try to load 200 files with "B < find .
> -name '*.tex'". Sam gives me "string too long". Ok, but sam `find .
> -name *.tex' from the command line work perfect.
>
> Is that a limit in the sam command window?

you are trying to slurp up a large 'string' into sam.

sam strings have a limited size.

read the paper.

rob will say i'm wrong.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-11-12 11:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-11 18:24 Matthias Teege
2003-11-11 20:49 ` Scott Schwartz
2003-11-12 11:13 ` Boyd Roberts [this message]

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