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| 1 | This file describes limits of gawk on a Unix system (although it | 
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| 2 | is variable even then).  Non-Unix systems may have other limits. | 
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| 3 |  | 
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| 4 | # of fields in a record:  MAX_LONG | 
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| 5 | Length of input record:  MAX_INT | 
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| 6 | Length of output record:  unlimited | 
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| 7 | Size of a field:  MAX_INT | 
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| 8 | Size of a printf string:  MAX_INT | 
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| 9 | Size of a literal string:  MAX_INT | 
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| 10 | Characters in a character class:  2^(# of bits per byte) | 
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| 11 | # of file redirections:  unlimited | 
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| 12 | # of pipe redirections:  min(# of processes per user, # of open files) | 
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| 13 | double-precision floating point | 
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| 14 | Length of source line:  unlimited | 
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| 15 | Number of input records in one file: MAX_LONG | 
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| 16 | Number of input records total: MAX_LONG | 
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