Question about terminal input buffering

John Temples john at jwt.UUCP
Sun Feb 10 09:59:29 AEST 1991


Why, when doing something like "cat > file" and typing input from the
keyboard, are long lines truncated?  On my System V box, it appears
as though the first 256 characters of a long input line are discarded
when I look at "file".
-- 
John W. Temples -- john at jwt.UUCP (uunet!jwt!john)



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