Re: Shell escape in less? Solved

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From: Matthew Dillon
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1992 18:34

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In article <1992Aug1.020352.1707@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> wasfy@ibrahim-michael.eigenmann.indiana.edu (Michael Wasfy Ibrahim) writes:
>Apparently the problems of the less command seem to be inherent to the
>version distributed by NeXT.  I've since acquired less v177 and it works
>w/out a problem (Thankyou, Jack Bryans, for the advice).  It is available
>from prep.ai.mit.edu in u1/emacs/less-177.tar.Z if anyone is interested.
>
>Thanks to all who responded!
>
>Michael Ibrahim
>wasfy@nic.gac.edu

    It also occurs to me that many of these 'swap file full' errors can be
    avoided by setting resource limits appropriately.  I.E. limit your
    stack to, say, 8MB and run time data to 64MB (or whatever).  That way a
    runaway program will only take 72MB of swap before it crashes and ONLY
    that particular program will crash, instead of the entire system going
    south.

					-Matt
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