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From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Cnews - A small assist for managing complex sys files
Message-ID: <1991Feb23.221103.13320@lokkur.dexter.mi.us>
Date: 23 Feb 91 22:11:03 GMT
References: <1991Feb22.034319.9805@wolves.uucp> <1991Feb22.162040.16112@zoo.toronto.edu>
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In article <1991Feb22.034319.9805@wolves.uucp> ggw%wolves@cs.duke.edu writes:
>I figured that it would not be a problem to have multiple entries in the
>sys file for a system that dealt with the appropriate subsets of the
>namespace so that it would not hit the "line length" limits that
>occasionally bite on very long sys entries.

henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

>Uh, *what* "line length" limits?  There are, by intent, none of any kind
>in C News.  We've got no shortage of customers using truly ridiculous line
>lengths for very selective feeds.

How about the human reader ones?  My sysfiles were horrible (yes, I
know about dynafeed, Brad!) until I split the entries across multiple
lines (ie, multiple sysfile entries for a single site).  1K-long lines
just don't make it.
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