[R] Suprising behavior of paste or cat?

[Russell Pierce]

If the list would provide additional reports I'd appreciate it.  I
replicated the effect this morning on another Windows XP machine...
R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
i386-pc-mingw32

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.10.1
...
and I replicated it using the current development build...

R version 2.11.0 Under development (unstable) (2010-02-09 r51113)
i386-pc-mingw32

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

In additionally I've determined that when h.long = 150; both cat and
write fail, but when h.long = 100 only the file write with cat fails.

Please advise.

Best,

Russell