Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!usc!blars!blarson From: blarson@blars.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.os.os9 Subject: Re: Umacs long lines Message-ID: <111@blars.UUCP> Date: 30 Sep 90 07:01:33 GMT References: Sender: news@usc.edu Reply-To: blarson@usc.edu Lines: 38 Nntp-Posting-Host: dianne.usc.edu Originator: blarson@dianne.usc.edu In article rh2y+@andrew.cmu.edu (Russell E. Hoffman, II) writes: >uMacs >Any lines we had that >were more than 255 characters got a CR added at the end >Is ther any way to define >the maximum line length inder uMacs, or is it pretty much hard-coded >in as a manifestation of the particular implementation? Probably not without modifying the source and re-compiling. > If this can't be >user-defined, do you suppose uWare will fix this 'bug' in the near future? Depends on how many (paying) users complain, and what you consider "near". Microware does accept bug reports from users (via snail mail), but if you don't pay big bucks for their "hot-line" support, don't expect much in the way of hand-holding. A few months of "hot-line" support may have been included with your osk licence. Fortunatly, mg limits line length to 65535 characters (size is stored in unsigned short) and of course you can change this and recompile if needed. Mg 2a is available from comp.sources.misc archives and via ftp from snow.white.toronto.edu, snow.white also has some improvements and bug-fixes that you can apply. [late breaking update: a couple of changes are needed to compile mg on osk 2.3 -- microware broke some things.] (This is a test post from my osk system.) -- blarson@usc.edu C news and rn for os9/68k! -- Bob Larson (blars) blarson@usc.edu usc!blarson Hiding differences does not make them go away. Accepting differences makes them unimportant.