On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 09:03:11AM +0200, Morten Eriksen wrote:
> At first, I thought this was due to a MIPSpro compiler bug, but I
> discovered that it was in fact due to the native sed. Checking the man
> pages for sed (SGI IRIX 6.5), I find this:
>
> Some of the commands use a hold space to save all or part of the
> pattern space for subsequent retrieval. The hold and pattern
> spaces each hold at least 8192 bytes.
a more common limit for older machines is 4096
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