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From: "Ilya Goldin" <ilya@isp.pitt.edu>
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Subject: RE: list size limitation ?
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 10:34:46 -0500
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> Sebastien Konieczny asked:
> > I have a question about the size of the lists in SWI-prolog.
> > <snip>
> > What are the "..." ?
> > <snip>
> > So it seems that the size of an answered list is bounded in 
> the new version and
> > I would like to know if it is to possible to increase or 
> remove this limit.

> Jan Wielemaker replied:
> See the prolog flag toplevel_print_options:
> 
> ?- current_prolog_flag(toplevel_print_options, X).
> 
> X = [quoted(true), portray(true), max_depth(10)]
> 
> See write_term/3 for the meaning of these options.
> 
> Note that you can change this globally for your site by creating an
> appropriate pl.rc (Unix) or plwin.rc (Windows) file in the SWI-Prolog
> `home' directory, which is compiled before anything else happens.

This had been puzzling me as well. May be worth adding to the FAQ.

-Ilya
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