frechett@boulder.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-) (12/24/90)
Thanks for the responces to this question. I have gotten many many responces from people who don't know what the real cause is so I thought that I had better post a note explaining why I have a problem. Originally, I said that I could get this line to work. #!/tmp/.../expect -f but not #!/users/en-eecs/huangc/.../expect -f The reason is simple. ULTRIX is screwed. It will not allow the use of a line longer than 32 chars from beggining to end (including arguments) and as you can see, that line is 37 chars long. This is apparently a bug rooted in the kernel and there really is no good workaround especially for "expect". In my case I believe I can pick up the needed room if I move expect to ~huangc/exp which should give me enough room for a couple flags too. Oh, and I heard that some Sun OSs have this problem too. Thanks for the help. ian -- -=Runaway Daemon=-