Yeah, it's actually funny. A program can be able to handle large files, but if you run it while your $SHELL=/bin/tcsh, it dies, dumps core, locks up the system, whatever. I tried recompiling tcsh with all the necessary flags with no effect. I don't know, maybe it's trivial, but I wasn't able to pin it down. > Goran Ceric <goran@genetics.wustl.edu> wrote on Wed, 8 May 2002: > >> I cannot for example do cat file1 >> file2 into a file > 2 GB using >> tcsh > > Neither can I ... I apologize for my previous email ... and now I would > like to repeat your question ... with twice the volume: why can't tcsh > handle large files? > > Ivo > > _______________________________________________ > Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters@bioinformatics.org > http://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters