tar -r on a diskfile/tar arg too long

[Dik T. Winter]

In article <3474 at auspex.auspex.com> guy at auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
 >                                   although the 4.x C shell can't cope with
 > an argument list that big (the Bourne shell doesn't have quite the same
 > problem).

Similar observations apply to Silicon Graphics version of Unix.
A humble guess:  the C shell has a hardwired limit somewhere deep in the
sources (a common feature of Unix utilities).
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dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland
dik at cwi.nl