Asdcarl.108 net.news utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!sdcarl!rusty Thu Dec 3 02:01:16 1981 BUFLEN This is an idea that has been bugging me for a while and is universally applicable to a lot of programs besides netnews. Why not instead of having statically allocated buffers (e.g. "BUFLEN" in netnews), dynamically allocate them? Initially malloc a BUFLEN's worth and when that runs out then use realloc to get some more.