blakem, I think he ment that this was the largest string he could handle. For good measure, I ran your line with the numbers 274,74,85,85 and it works on my box.

I repeated this with yesterdays framechat log (nice and long textfile):

perl -e '$a=join "", <STDIN>; $a=~tr/\n/ /s; print $a'\
 </tmp/20011113.txt | \
perl -e '$_=<STDIN>; foreach(split){print "$_\n"}' | less
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Works. Would this mean that there is an issue with the solaris shell?

Jeroen