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From: awb@uk.ac.ed.aipna (Alan W Black)
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Subject: Re: MacMinix config.h LINEWRAP option
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Date: 14 Dec 90 11:39:08 GMT
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In article <1639@ukpoit.co.uk>, paul@ukpoit.co.uk (Paul Wood) writes:
|>
|>In /usr/include/minix/config.h is the following entry:
|>    #define LINEWRAP 0             /* console.c - wrap lines at column 80 */
|>
|>It appears to have no effect when I changed it to a 1 and remade the kernel,
|>mm, fs, and macboot. It is not used in console.c.
|>
|>In fact when I executed the following:
|>    find / -name '*.[ch]' -exec grep LINEWRAP {} \;
|>                              the only line found was the one listed above.
|>
|>Does anybody have any information about LINEWRAP?
|>
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Unfortunately LINEWRAP is only used in the PC specific stuff (console.c)
and is not used at all in the 68000 code (at least not in the ST version).

The config file doesn't make this clear and possibly should, or even
better the 68k version could use it (so I don't loose the last bytes
of the line on my ST).  I don't know of a way to get LINEWRAP in the 
68K version.

Alan

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