I don't experience your limitation ...
iMi7:jstuff jkt$ j6
JVERSION
Installer: j602a_mac_intel.dmg
Engine: j602/2008-03-03/16:45
Library: 6.02.023
NB. I have a couple of files that are text digits of pi ...
NB. host is a nice wrapper for 2!:0
host
[: 2!:0 '(' , ' || true)' ,~ ]
$pi=. host 'cat Pi33554433.txt'
33554434
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510
NB. No trouble, even for much larger results
$Lpi=: 2!:0 'cat "~/Downloads/pi/y-cruncher v0.5.5.9187 (fix 2)/Pi -
Dec - Chudnovsky.txt"'
500000002
~~
Perhaps it is some setting in your Darwin environment?
On 2013/05/12 05:47 , Ian Clark wrote:
AFAICT the returned value from 2!:0 in j602 running on Darwin is limited to
8192 bytes.
Is there an easy way to increase this value, eg to double it?
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