Coltman Timothy wrote:
> Try typing 'unlimit' at the prompt before compiling your program. When
> compiling in C++ sometimes I get the same problem, and unlimit seems to
> solve the problem. Don't know if it'll work for C though, it's worth a
> try, I'd think.
> 
'unlimit only works for csh and probably for tcsh.

For sh and bash ulimit is the shell builtin to look for. In bash

ulimit -d unlimited

should sort things out and I think:

ulimit -d -1 

will work for sh. I can't check this as I have no access to my NetBSD machine
as I am at work.

Mike