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From: sundar@cwruecmp.UUCP (Sundar R. Iyengar)
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Subject: Re: reading arbitrarily long strings from stdin
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Date: Fri, 27-Dec-85 18:52:13 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 27 18:52:13 1985
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>From: davidson@sdcsvax.UUCP (J. Greg Davidson)
>Subject: Re: Routine to read arbitrary lenght lines from a stdio file desc.

Since you are recursively calling the "rdln" routine for each
character, the length of a string you can read depends on the
recursion depth.  So the string cannot be "arbitrarily" long.
On our VAX11/780 running 4.2BSD, the length must be <= 13036
characters.  It runs out of stack space after these many calls.

sri