In reply to Benjamin's mail, d.d. Sun, 9 Mar 2003 04:03:45 +0100:

>  [...]
>  file size             (blocks, -f) 100000
>
>That means the system won't allow you to write files bigger than
>100.000KB. One obvious way to change it is to use "ulimit" itself,
>although non-root users are limited in the ways changing the limits.
>
>From the top of my head, I am not sure where to change the system wide
>defaults. /etc/security/limits.conf might be one place to look at.

Hi Benjamin and Hendrik,

Ulimit -a shows exactly what you predicted. Thank you for the tip.
I have already figured out how to go about the problem, namely by making
several files, somewhat along the line of what Hendrik said.
So thanks to you both!

Paul

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