[18748] in Athena Bugs
linux 8.4.19: add
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arun A Tharuvai)
Fri Feb 2 18:32:22 2001
Message-Id: <200102022332.SAA10263@pickled-herring.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 18:32:14 -0500
From: Arun A Tharuvai <aatharuv@MIT.EDU>
System name: pickled-herring.mit.edu
Type and version: i686 8.4.19 (with mkserv)
Display type: XFree86 3.3.6 SVGA
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: sawfish
What were you trying to do?
add a locker (hfstools) to my path
What's wrong:
It returns the error "Word too long.", and
/mit/hfstools/arch/i386_linux22/bin should have been
added to my path.
What should have happened:
The locker should have been added to my path.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
tcsh limits words to a maximum of 1024 characters.
http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/rechner/shells/tcsh/LIMITATIONS.html
Because of a large number of directories already in my path, the
add tcsh alias
eval `/bin/athena/attach -Padd $add_flags !:*`
executes
setenv PATH largepathstatement
where largepathstatement is > 1024 bytes in length.
This problem does not occur under bash.
Arun
