Jeff asks:
> Does anyone know how to increase the size of the shell's command line
> buffer?  I was told about the shell command:
>    $ getconf _POSIX2_LINE_MAX
>
> and it shows 2048.  I'd like to be able to increase this value by a factor

Interesting...I checked that on HP-UX (10.20) and also got 2048.

On our AIX machine, I have to use:   getconf LINE_MAX
(and I also get 2048)

Strangely enough, HP-UX type-ahead code doesn't appear to know about
_POSIX2_LINE_MAX, as the maximum amount you can type ahead is
777 characters.

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