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From: 2212msr@whuts.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: large file text editor
Message-ID: <2097@whuts.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 10:16:17 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  1 10:16:17 1987
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Summary: spf/pc max . record = 954

> 
> I use spf-pc a lot and generally like it but there are two limitations
> I've found (note that these aren't bugs since they're true of the mainframe
> version of spf as well.)  One is that it cannot be used at all with
> files that have record lengths greater than 255.  If you try it will
> just say that "record length exceeds spf-pc maximum."  The other limitation
> is that there is no word entity.  That is, you always have to delete either
> individual characters or lines and you can only move the cursor by characters
> or lines (or pages.)
> The lack of a tab character is also inconvenient for FORTRAN programming.
> 
> Miriam Nadel


I belive that Miriam is using an old version of  SPF (>2 years old).  SPF/PC,
Release 1.82 allows record lengths of 954 characters.  This release has been out
for well over a year.  On her other comments I agree.

Max S. Robin
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Whippany, NJ
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