[net.bugs.v7] awk output size limits

henry (09/21/82)

Although awk(1) is perfectly capable of reading lines much larger
than 512 bytes, it cannot write them.  This appears to be an accident;
the definition of RECSIZE in run.c is what determines the output-line
limit, and it is set to 512 whereas elsewhere RECSIZE is 5*512.  I
have tried increasing RECSIZE to 1024 and have seen no ill effects.

mclure@sri-unix (09/21/82)

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sri-unix!mclure    Sep 21 06:33:00 1982

Yes, we noticed the same thing and had recompiled it with no problem.

	Stuart