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From: rlk@THINK.COM (Robert L. Krawitz)
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Subject: Xman Error: Too many manual pages... Try recompiling with ...
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Date: 7 Aug 89 16:18:33 GMT
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   Date: 7 Aug 89 10:44:08 GMT
   From: mcvax!unido!tub!net@uunet.uu.net  (Oliver Laumann)

   I'm sorry if this sounds like a flame (of course I respect the work of
   the author of xman), but I hate artificial limits and error messages
   like the one above.  Yes, sometimes it's harder to write programs
   without artificial limits, but the extra work is worth-while and saves
   other people's work.  As an example for software that avoids annoying
   built-in limits, look at GNU Emacs.

One of the biggest hassles of emacs is that it DOES have limits.  It
uses 24-bit signed integers (the top 8 bits are tag bits) and as a
result editor buffers are limited to 8 Mbytes (as are a lot of other
things).

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