[OS X TeX] Re: Plea/Request: Bibtex with increased BUF_SIZE

[Claus Gerhardt]

The buf_size of my distribution is buf_size = 200000. Maybe you have  
an old distribution or an old texmf.cnf file having precedence over  
the default one which is located in /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/ 
web2c/texmf.cnf.

Claus


On Sep 2, 2006, at 23:54, Lee Samuel Finn wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The bibtex BUF_SIZE constant, set at compile time, controls the
> maximum size of strings. Unfortunately, in all the assorted
> distributions I've been able to find, that size is set too low for
> some of my bibtex entries. (Unfortunately I can't make the entries
> shorter: they are required that way by the funding agency --- NSF ---
> I'm writing a proposal to.) My plea/request: a bibtex that has a
> significantly larger BUF_SIZE --- say, at least 20000 (yes - twenty
> thousand) and other increased parameter sizes as necessary for this
> to work.
>
> It would be wonderful if the assorted tex distributions --- e.g.,
> gwTeX, TeXLive --- were to distribute their compiled versions with a
> larger BUF_SIZE.
>
> Thanks for any help you can offer,
>
> Sam
>
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