Oracle 8i EE on Linux: can't set MAXEXTENTS UNLIMITED.

I'm really new to Oracle, so I'm hoping this is an easy question.

I just got 8i up on RedHat 6.0 (unmodified). I built a database. I'm about to set up some more
tablespaces, but when I include MAXEXTENTS UNLIMITED in the CREATE TABLESPACE
command (under svrmgrl) it complains about and illegal value for MAXEXTENTS. If I take out
that phrase, leaving MINEXTENTS 1 and PCTINCREASE 0, it goes through okay.

This seems really peculiar, because I had cut-and-pasted this from the script that created my
database.

Any clues?

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