Endian wars - really 386 questi

Paul De Bra debra at alice.UUCP
Mon Feb 6 14:03:34 AEST 1989


In article <7877 at boring.cwi.nl> dik at cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes:
> +---------------
> | (Quick: who's run into Unix's 10K command-line limit?)
> +---------------

Try "compress /usr/lib/tex/fonts/*" or whatever command with the full path
of all files in a large directory. Quite annoying that you have to cd to
the directory, and even then the expansion of "*" may yield more than 10K.

Paul.
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