> 
> $TMPDIR is set to a partition w/ ~10Gb of free space.  I think I may have
> figured out the problem (and a nasty work-around):  it seems that GNU sort is
> interpreting the sort column of db.wordlist as a command line argument; i.e.
> if the line in db.wordlist begins "-something" sort is freaking out!  I

sort -- -something
should disable sort from intepreting -something after.

> simply did a `sed 's?^-??'` on db.wordlist and then moved the new file into
> place.  htmerge ran successfully.  This being said, there's got to be a
> better way!!
> 
> On a different note, I am having other problems.  I know that this is not a
> htdig limitation, but the Solaris 2.5.1 machine I'm running this on has a 2Gb
> file size limitation.  Is there any way to have htdig split into multiple 2Gb
> files?  I know that I can manually limit things to the point where the
> various db's are <2Gb, but that's not really a solution either.  I need a
> dynamic db!  I guess I could move to Solaris 2.6, which doesn't have the 2Gb
> limitation.  I'd like to hear how other folks have dealt with this problem. 
> As you can see, I'm indexing a *huge* amount of documents...
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Tyson
> 
> On 01-Dec-98 Geoff Hutchison wrote:
> > At 4:56 PM -0500 11/24/98, Tyson Bigler wrote:
> >>I dl'd the latest snapshot (htdig-3.1.0b3-112298) and I'm using GNU sort,
> >>but
> >>I still get the same 'invalid argument' error from sort...  Maybe I need to
> >>rebuild the index because I'm trying to merge the same index everytime...
> > 
> > This shouldn't be a problem. What is the environment variable TMPDIR? (If
> > you're using rundig, it should be set in there somewhere.)
> > 
> > 
> > -Geoff Hutchison
> > Williams Students Online
> > http://wso.williams.edu/
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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