Space limit on bc programs

Noam Elkies elkies at osgood.harvard.edu
Sun May 14 13:22:16 AEST 1989


Is there any way around the space limit that causes bc to terminate
with `program too big on line <number>, [teletype|<filename>]'
whenever I try to load more than ~200 program lines?  (This is on
a SUN-3 or SUN-4; we do not have source code for bc or dc.)

--Noam D. Elkies (elkies at zariski.harvard.edu / ELKIES at ZARISKI.BITNET)
  Dept. of Math., Harvard Univ.

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