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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 08:11:23 -0400
To: dexen.devries@gmail.com, 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] sed line length limit
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On Fri May 25 03:51:27 EDT 2012, dexen.devries@gmail.com wrote:
> hi list,
>
>
> it seems p9p sed has line lenght limit at about 1024 bytes.
> however, instead of crashing and burning, or returning some error, it just
> happily spews truncated output.

please see /n/sources/contrib/quanstro/sed.c.  i think i've taken
care of all these cases.  there is at least diagnostic output.
i was somewhat concerned about breaking things, so i didn't
let toolong() sysfatal, but that's an easy mod.

- erik