Is this a known limitation (similar to max string size of 0x00ffffff)? I use pipe to connect through multiple processes (like grep / sort /uniq,etc) and it is very handy.
I'm hoping that this is a bug and not a limitation... Try the following code, enter 1500 is OK but if you enter 2000, the program will abort with a broken pipe. Thanks, fungsin (declare (uses extras regex posix utils)) (require-extension loop) (require-extension miscmacros) (define-macro (with-output-to-less . body) `(with-output-to-pipe "/usr/bin/less -X -E -M" (lambda () ,@body))) (define (command-loop) (loop for line = (begin (display "Enter a number or `exit' to quit> ") (read-line)) while (and line (not (eof-object? line))) if (equal? line "exit") do (exit) else do (let ((n (ignore-errors (string->number line)))) (when n (with-output-to-less (repeat n (print "Chicken Chicken Chicken Chicken Chicken Chicken"))))))) (command-loop) _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users