From thomas@biostat.washington.edu  Fri Jul 25 21:54:28 1997
From: thomas@biostat.washington.edu (Thomas Lumley)
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 13:54:28 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: R-alpha: help processing
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.95.970725134337.3738G-100000@zen>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.970725134816.3738H-100000@zen>


On Solaris (and presumably other System V Unices), the default buffer
length for m4 is only 4096 characters. This limits the length of
ARGUMENTS() or VALUES() in help files. survfit.coxph overflows this limit. 

Adding the option -B 8192 to m4 in the etc/doc2* files fixes this.


Thomas Lumley
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R-alpha: help processing
Thomas Lumley