docs/107578: uniq(1) should mention max line length

>Number:         107578
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       uniq(1) should mention max line length
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jan 05 18:40:21 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jan Schaumann
>Release:        n/a
>Organization:
>Environment:
n/a
>Description:
uniq(1) uses LINE_MAX + 1, but this is not mentioned anywhere in the man page, causing one to wonder why uniq is not working as expected on input with longer lines. 
>How-To-Repeat:
for i in `jot 4096`; do printf "a" >> file; done
echo >> file
for i in `jot 4096`; do printf "a" >> file; done
echo >> file
uniq file
man uniq
>Fix:
--- /tmp/uniq.1 Fri Jan  5 10:31:16 2007
+++ /tmp/uniq.1.old     Fri Jan  5 10:31:41 2007
@@ -153,9 +153,3 @@
 .Nm
 command appeared in
 .At v3 .
-.Sh BUGS
-The
-.Nm
-utilitiy limits lines to a maximum of LINE_MAX + 1 bytes in length
-(commonly 2048 + 1).
-It will not be able to filter out identical lines longer than that.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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