Hello Michiel!   
      
   Wednesday February 12 2014 11:29, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Andrew Leary:   
      
    AL>> The code should handle nodelist lines up to 512 bytes in length.   
      
    MvdV> And gracefully handle longer lines I presume? (Instead of crashing   
    MvdV> like the old MakeNl)   
      
    MvdV> [ FTSC bureaucrat mode on ]   
      
    MvdV> From FTS-5000.004:   
      
    MvdV>   For compatibility with certain broken segment processors, nodelist   
    MvdV>   maintainers must limit all lines to at most 157 characters (plus   
    MvdV>   terminator).  It is very likely this limitation will be removed in   
    MvdV>   the future, therefore future software implementations should be able   
    MvdV>   to process lines of up to 1024 characters, and individual fields of   
    MvdV>   up to 255 characters (unless otherwise specified).   
      
    MvdV> [ off ]   
      
    MvdV> It is no big deal of course, I do not expect to see lines >512 bytes   
    MvdV> in the nodelist any time soon. But as you are an FTSC member, you   
    MvdV> might consider upping the max line length next time you fire up the   
    MvdV> compiler...   
      
    MvdV> Just a suggestion.   
      
   I will look into it the next time I'm near that part of the code.   
      
   Andrew   
      
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