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   Michiel van der Vlist to Andrew Leary   
   Record length   
   12 Feb 14 11:29:30   
   
   Hello Andrew,   
      
   On Tuesday February 11 2014 20:43, you wrote to Ward Dossche:   
      
    WD>> Will makenl barf if "long record lines" would be used for   
    WD>> nodelist segments?   
      
    AL> The code should handle nodelist lines up to 512 bytes in length.   
      
   And gracefully handle longer lines I presume? (Instead of crashing like the   
   old MakeNl)   
      
   [ FTSC bureaucrat mode on ]   
      
   From FTS-5000.004:   
      
     For compatibility with certain broken segment processors, nodelist   
     maintainers must limit all lines to at most 157 characters (plus   
     terminator).  It is very likely this limitation will be removed in   
     the future, therefore future software implementations should be able   
     to process lines of up to 1024 characters, and individual fields of   
     up to 255 characters (unless otherwise specified).   
      
   [ off ]   
      
   It is no big deal of course, I do not expect to see lines >512 bytes in the   
   nodelist any time soon. But as you are an FTSC member, you might consider   
   upping the max line length next time you fire up the compiler...   
      
   Just a suggestion.   
      
   Cheers, Michiel   
      
   --- GoldED+/W32-MINGW 1.1.5-b20110320   
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