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From: webber@csd.uwo.ca (Robert E. Webber)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MacMinix config.h LINEWRAP option
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Date: 14 Dec 90 05:00:01 GMT
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In article <1639@ukpoit.co.uk> paul@ukpoit.co.uk (Paul Wood) writes:
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.In /usr/include/minix/config.h is the following entry:
.    #define LINEWRAP 0             /* console.c - wrap lines at column 80 */

I think this was left there for compatibility with the other versions
under the assumption that if LINEWRAP was ever implemented, it would
read this hook to do it.  Doubtless it is on Pickert's list of things
to do.  Where on the list it is I have no idea.  In theory it
shouldn't be difficult to do if you run 80 char wide terminal windows,
but since the mac console window can have its fonts changed and the
console windows themselves can be resized, a general implementation of
linewrap might be messier than one would like.

.In fact when I executed the following:
.    find / -name '*.[ch]' -exec grep LINEWRAP {} \;
.                              the only line found was the one listed above.

Actually, you probably want to do a search on *.[csh] when trying to track this
sort of thing, since who knows what evil lurks in the .s files.  Also, a -print
on the end of the find is helpful for those times when something is actually
found.

.Does anybody have any information about LINEWRAP?

Just confirm that you are the third person to notice it doesn't work on
MacMinix.

--- BOB (webber@csd.uwo.ca)