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   Message 921 of 1,725   
   Andrew Leary to Wilfred van Velzen   
   Code change suggestions   
   14 Feb 14 07:42:00   
   
   Hello Wilfred!   
      
   Thursday February 13 2014 16:29, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to Developers:   
      
    WvV> Hi Developers,   
    WvV> I want to suggest the following changes to the makenl code:   
      
   I will most likely incorporate these for 3.4.3.  Thanks for the suggestions.   
      
    WvV> I was hit by the (undocumented) arcopy and arcmove command line limit   
    WvV> of 20 chars when I upgraded from 3.2.9b to 3.4.2.   
      
    WvV> The configuration lines I use are:   
      
    WvV> arccopy l /usr/local/bin/lha cqi   
    WvV> arcmove l /usr/local/bin/lha cqi   
      
    WvV> Which needs a command line buffer of at least 23 chars.   
      
    WvV> Because in the 3.4.2 version (or a version inbetween) fixes a bug   
    WvV> where the command line length wasn't checked when it copied the string   
    WvV> from the configuration file, it used to work with the 3.2.9b version.   
    WvV> But no longer in the 3.4.2, so I got an error when the arccopy command   
    WvV> was executed by makenl in my configuration, because the command line   
    WvV> was cut short...   
      
   Yes, andrew clarke has done a bunch of work on preventing overflows, including   
   at least one that I created a few versions ago.  OOPS!   
      
    WvV> 256 is still arbitrary, but should be enough for most systems. ;)   
      
   I would hope so!   
      
   Regards,   
      
   Andrew   
      
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