Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Cnews - A small assist for managing complex sys files
Message-ID: <1991Feb24.000606.3890@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1991Feb22.034319.9805@wolves.uucp> <1991Feb22.162040.16112@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Feb23.221103.13320@lokkur.dexter.mi.us>
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 1991 00:06:06 GMT

In article <1991Feb23.221103.13320@lokkur.dexter.mi.us> scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons) writes:
>>Uh, *what* "line length" limits? ...
>
>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.

I don't see any advantage to using multiple sysfile entries over just
using backslash-newline to split a single entry.
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