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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: eqn and pic
Message-ID: <6707@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 20-Nov-87 15:41:38 EST
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.6707
Posted: Fri Nov 20 15:41:38 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Nov-87 15:08:52 EST
References: <311@usl>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <311@usl> kmw%usl.csnet@csnet-relay (Kent Michael White) writes:
>I am trying to run a large pic file through eqn.
>When my picture command file reaches about 44 lines long
>I get a "line too long" error message when I run the file
>through eqn.

Yes, several of the DWB tools suffered from undue restrictions on
input line length.  In the case of "eqn", this is set by a manifest
constant MAXLINE within the first few lines of the source file "io.c".
If you can't change this and rebuild "eqn" from sources, I don't
know what else you can do (other than to fold "pic" output lines
before submitting them to "eqn").