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From: R1TMARG%AKRONVM.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (Tim Margush)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: RE: Length of file lines in turbo
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Date: 27 Nov 89 19:36:47 GMT
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Regarding the inquiry concerning the maximum length of a line in an
external file when written from a turbo pascal program...

The answers posted to the net all confused the file question with
a question about strings or other form of internal storage.

To my knowledge, there is no maximum length file... (limited only by
disk space).  The sequence:

    max:=whatever;
    for i:=1 to max do write(f,'a');
    writeln(f)

will create a 1-line file (of a's) with a line of arbitrary (max) length.
"Lines" in a file are determined by the presence of line separators
(carriage return/line feed).

Incidentally, does turbo respect either of these or both?  Does a read(f,ch)
return a "space" when eoln(f) is true?