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+This file describes limits of gawk on a Unix system (although it
+is variable even then).  Non-Unix systems may have other limits.
+
+# of fields in a record:  MAX_INT
+Length of input record:  MAX_INT 
+Length of output record:  unlimited
+Size of a field:  MAX_INT 
+Size of a printf string:  MAX_INT 
+Size of a literal string:  MAX_INT 
+Characters in a character class:  2^(# of bits per byte)
+# of file redirections:  unlimited
+# of pipe redirections:  min(# of processes per user, # of open files)
+double-precision floating point
+Length of source line:  unlimited