When trying to use a too-large N, hload should probably show the same error msg that hmake does:

Quote:
//if ($hget(test)) hfree -s test | hmake -sm10001 test
* /hmake: invalid parameters
//if ($hget(test)) hfree -s test | hload -sim10001 test $qt($mircini) options
* /hload: no such table 'test'