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: <1991Feb27.174216.1243@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1991Feb22.034319.9805@wolves.uucp> <1991Feb22.162040.16112@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Feb27.064651.1600@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 1991 17:42:16 GMT

In article <1991Feb27.064651.1600@comp.vuw.ac.nz> duncan@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Duncan McEwan) writes:
>>Uh, *what* "line length" limits? ...
>
>I understood long sys file lines to be a problem for some of the
>awk scripts on systems with awks that limit line lengths...

This is a nuisance but, last I looked, doesn't actually cause any dire
problems.
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