If you have tried to make a very large group in MGED, you may have run into
the line length limit. This is a limitation of TCL, not BRL-CAD.

The way to work around this is to use the 'g' command multiple times with
the same group name

g thing box1
g thing box2
g thing box3

This will keep appending to the 'thing' group instead of overwriting it.

If that takes too long, it may be more efficient to generate the script with
the UNIX xargs command in a shell script

cat list-o-boxes | xargs -n 100 echo g thing > mgedscript

Where -n says how many elements to put on a single line. The resulting
"mgedscript" file can then be evaluated in MGED to produce the desired
group.

 -Erik


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