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Re: pasting into IDL command line: limit at 1024 characters? [message #59057 is a reply to message #58933]

Mon, 03 March 2008 11:00

Brian Larsen
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Registered: June 2006

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> But, as you say, the problem is peculiar to IDL, not the shell/
> terminal in general.

Just to throw in that every terminal has a maximum, I pulled the
"checking the maximum length of command line arguments" out of a
configure script and find that OSX terminal does have a size limit but
I bet you wont hit it.

[balarsen@LarsenLaptop]~> sh line_length.sh
checking the maximum length of command line arguments
result: 196608

I am sure that IDL has a limit based on the size of a buffer that is
initialized in the source code for IDL (written in C I guess but don't
know). If I am right on this, one could petition ITT to increase this
buffer for the next release of IDL if this is a issue for folks.

Cheers,

Brian

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		pasting into IDL command line: limit at 1024 characters? By: pgrigis on Wed, 27 February 2008 15:46
		Re: pasting into IDL command line: limit at 1024 characters? By: rkombiyil on Fri, 29 February 2008 18:58
		Re: pasting into IDL command line: limit at 1024 characters? By: Anthony[1] on Sat, 01 March 2008 11:23
		Re: pasting into IDL command line: limit at 1024 characters? By: rkombiyil on Fri, 29 February 2008 18:56
		Re: pasting into IDL command line: limit at 1024 characters? By: pgrigis on Tue, 04 March 2008 07:33
		Re: pasting into IDL command line: limit at 1024 characters? By: Loren Anderson on Tue, 04 March 2008 07:06
		Re: pasting into IDL command line: limit at 1024 characters? By: Brian Larsen on Mon, 03 March 2008 11:00

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