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In view of my previous question Script for recursive add-to-source control: How to ignore specific files and folders, an issue that arose in regard to the command clearprompt (whereby to generate a list of elements for source control) is that it has restrictions on the number of elements it can process. So my question is: Is there a way to allow for a larger number of elements?

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clearprompt has some limitation, in term of size, number of character per lines, and as you see, number of elements.
Those aren't fixed, on Windows or Unix, as far as I know.

So it is best to split your list, and to display several clearprompt dialogs, with a header specifying the number of said dialog over the total of number of windows expected (1/6, 2/6, 3/6, ...)

The only other solution would be to rely on another library to dispolay that dialog, but the advantage of using ccperl is that it is installed with the ClearCase client, which means it is available on all client workstation.

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I believe I encounter a similar issue where because of this limit, the clearprompt dialog was empty. I debugged the script and the error seems to be because of the system limit of the max command line which was passed to echo in the following statement

`echo $listelement > $list_add`

I just changed this line to the following

open(LIST_ADD,">".$list_add);
print LIST_ADD $listelement; 
close(LIST_ADD);

or basically, instead of relying on the shell to copy the content, I am doing the same through perl and that resolved the issue.

Abhijit
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