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Old 10-06-2008
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I'm sorry, but your diagnosis doesn't sound plausible to me. Do you get any error message? The shell will simply allocate enough memory to hold the variables, and emit an error (and possibly even crash) if it cannot.

Can you prune down your script to a minimal example which exhibits this behavior?