In the last episode (Sep 22), David Southwell said:
> How is the the size of stdout controlled.
>
> My query comes about because I had a shell running for ages with unlimited
> history and found it had gobbled uyp all the space available to stdout!!!
Could you provide the error message that made you think that stdout has
a limit? "stdout" could be anything: tty, socket, pipe, file, etc. If
you have redirected stdout from a script to a file, like "ls > ls.txt",
then it's possible that you filled up a filesystem.
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Dan Nelson
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