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command limits when pasting into tcsh (mac OS X)
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Mar 15, 20263258 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I encountered a 1024 character limit problem when pasting commands into the terminal application (max OS X 10.5.8) running the TC shell (/bin/tcsh). This can consistently be reproduced by pasting the following commands into the terminal app: At first, it works as expected, but at some point it fail…
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Fix for: command limits when pasting into tcsh (mac OS X)
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The limit you are encountering seems like the tty type-ahead buffer. It is “hard coded” in the Mac OS X kernel. xnu-1504.9.17/bsd/kern/tty.c: look for “input_overflow:”; uses MAX_INPUT xnu-1504.9.17/bsd/sys/syslimits.h: MAX_INPUT is #defined as 1024…
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