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From: Clint Adams <clint@zsh.org>
To: Andrew Markebo <flognat@flognat.myip.org>
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Subject: Re: Filesizelimit??
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In-Reply-To: <m3n12kg2ow.fsf@localhost.localdomain>; from flognat@flognat.myip.org on Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 10:26:07PM +0200

> Thanx, throwing a couple of greps on the sources seems to verify this,
> hmm meanwhile, how come zsh told it, not some kind of kernel/libc
> error? Or it was zsh that caught the error and displayed it nicely?

bctool is probably getting an EFBIG error, receiving a SIGXFSZ, and
dying.  zsh is attempting to let you know what happened.