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Re: paste: line too long


From: Bob Proulx
Subject: Re: paste: line too long
Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 21:33:24 -0600

> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
> <HTML><HEAD>

In the future when posting messages to mailing lists it would be most
appreciated if you sent your message in plain text format.  HTML mail
is not appreciated.  Plain text is best.

  http://www.expita.com/nomime.html

> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=780435420-06052002>I'm getting 
> "paste: 
> line too long" error using Unix paste and it would be great if GNU&nbsp;fixes 
> this for me.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>

I did not even double check that paste really fixes it but I am sure
it does.  Removing arbitrary limits is a goal of the GNU Project.
Here is the pertinent section of the program standards on that topic.

  http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_13.html

Bob



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