Hello, On Sunday 09 November 2008 19:09, Eric Kow wrote: > > -yes | head -n 4000 | xargs echo -n > foo > > +printf "File contents" > foo > > Ah, yes, this avoids the newline
Thanks to twb for this. Although I haven't had problems with echo -n, he mentioned that it was not portable. > > > -yes | head -n 300000 | xargs echo -n > foo > > +for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16; do cat foo foo > foo2; mv foo2 foo; done > > Hah! I like this doubling-in-size approach (in fact, I liked it so much, > I almost implemented it for .depend). But if you want, I can wait until > you find a cleaner solution (I won't wait too long though, and will > probably push this in before the night is over) > > Could you please check that the modified test still fails on darcs > 2.1.0? The modified test certainly fails with the stack overflow for darcs 2.0.0 (unknown) which is the darcs that I have installed for ordinary use on the PPC Mac that I usually use for these things. I am not sure, actually, that I have a darcs 2.1.0 readily available, but just say the word, then I'll arrange to get one. (I'll be gone for a few hours now, but will be back later.) > > Thanks! > > -- > Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> > PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9 > Best regards Thorkil _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
