[Wien] "Word too long" error (lapw1para)

Laurence Marks L-marks at northwestern.edu
Wed Jan 13 14:48:24 CET 2010


Thanks. I isolated the problem to line 500 of lapw1para
echo -n "$helpout(${kpl[$loop]}) " >.time1_$loop

Will get back to it later...

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 2:03 AM, Gerhard Fecher <fecher at uni-mainz.de> wrote:
> I found that, maybe it helps:
>
> From
> http://www.sunmanagers.org/pipermail/summaries/2002-February/000911.html
>
> SUMMARY: tcsh question ("Word too long" message)
>
> Thanks to:  Sherman Butler,
>                   Lars Hecking
>                   Fabrice Guerini
>                   Scott Yelich
>                   Bara Zani
>                   Scott Sorrentino
>                   Stephen Luxmoore
>                   Richard Skelton, and,
>                   Osama Ahmed
>
> The problem was the user had cd aliased to something else.
>
> Other suggestions:
>
>  1 - Check for PATH too long.
>
> 2 - Search Google.
>
> 3 - check to see that there's no file called cd in his working directory and
> that . is in his path
>
> 4 - Increase the default word length in tcsh source and recompile
> (default=1000 characters).
>
> Thanks again
> Dave
>
> ----Original Message-----
>
> Hi Managers:
>                       Solaris 8, CDE, tcsh, one of our users, after working
> in a window for a while, when cd'ing, getting the message "Word too long.".
> Example follows:
>
> whitney] psycho:>
> [whitney] psycho:> cd
> Word too long.
>
> Has anyone run into this?  I will summarize.
>
> Thanks
> Dave
>
>
> Ciao
> Gerhard
>
> ====================================
> Dr. Gerhard H. Fecher
> Institut of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry
> Johannes Gutenberg - University
> 55099 Mainz
> ________________________________________
> Von: wien-bounces at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at [wien-bounces at zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at] im Auftrag von Laurence Marks [L-marks at northwestern.edu]
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 12. Januar 2010 22:53
> An: A Mailing list for WIEN2k users
> Betreff: [Wien] "Word too long" error (lapw1para)
>
> Has anyone every seen this, looks like it occurs (for me) with 512
> cores in lapw1para. Presumably some csh limits.
>
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Laurence Marks
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
MSE Rm 2036 Cook Hall
2220 N Campus Drive
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Tel: (847) 491-3996 Fax: (847) 491-7820
email: L-marks at northwestern dot edu
Web: www.numis.northwestern.edu
Chair, Commission on Electron Crystallography of IUCR
www.numis.northwestern.edu/
Electron crystallography is the branch of science that uses electron
scattering and imaging to study the structure of matter.


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