"Matthias Teege" 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.