Markdown not working with biggish file

[David Tannenbaum]

Running it through the command line worked like a charm. Thank you!


On Apr 6, 2005 11:01 PM, John Gruber <gruber at fedora.net> wrote:
> David Tannenbaum <david.tannenbaum at gmail.com> wrote on 04/06/05 at 10:48pm:
> 
> > I just went through page by page with Dingis, copying a little bit
> > each time, and discovered whtat I think is a length limit. No matter
> > what I typed beyond the limit, Dingus would not convert.
> 
> It's possible the Dingus is failing because of Pair (my web host)'s
> process reaper, which kills CGI processes that consume too much CPU
> time. Hard to say.
> 
> 
> > I did something similar with HumaneType 5 and an Applescript
> > written for OS X.
> 
> Would it be possible for you to send me the input file? If so, send
> it to me off-list as an email attachment. If it's confidential or
> for whatever reason you'd prefer not to, can you try doing it right
> on the OS X command line?
> 
> Something like
> 
>     % perl /path/to/Markdown.pl yourinputfile.text > output.html
> 
> should work.
> 
> There shouldn't be any such practical limits on input size.
> 
> -J.G.
>