Message-Id: <200308030851.h738p4j22763@delorie.com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Joerg Fischer To: Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 10:42:03 +0200 Subject: Cygwin and filtering bug Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id h738p4j22763 The problem is as follows: In NEdit (sorry folks, I don't speak Vim) make a selection and filter (Alt+R) it through e.g. fmt. Everything is fine as long as the text to be filtered doesn't exceed a certain size. More precisely, the text *returned* by the filter mustn't exceed a certain size (I guess around 32K). Otherwise NEdit doesn't get an answer from the filter and stays waiting until the filter is killed. (You can filter as big a text as you want to e.g. wc, since the number of words and chars, which is the answer of the filter is well below the 30K that causes the hang up.) My system is WinXP. I heard from someone else that on his Win2K system the return size limit would be 16K. However on my system I could fmt a text bigger than that, as said around 30K until the hang up occurs. Unfortunately the problem with filter selection under Cygwin persist also on the latest stable release 1.3.22 and the test release 1.5.1. --Joerg -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/