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From: dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MPW has trouble with L O N G lines
Message-ID: <10889@apple.Apple.Com>
Date: 23 May 88 04:05:53 GMT
References: <13623@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Reply-To: dan@apple.UUCP (Dan Allen)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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The MPW Shell was actually DESIGNED to only handle 132 characters per
line, so it is not a bug per se.  For MPW 3.0 (coming any day Real Soon
Now, by the end of the year if you are lucky), this limit has been upped
to 256 or something like that.  Sorry folks, but that is how Bill Duvall
originally desinged the editor for MDS, and that's where the MPW editor
began, so I do not expect it to change in the foreseeable future.

There is a quick workaround, however, for files with long lines.  Open
the file in a word processor, which considers return characters to be
paragraph endings, and then resave the text document with line breaks.

Example:  open in MS Word 3.0x and then save as text with line breaks.
Now your text file has (roughly) 80 character lines.

Dan Allen
Software Explorer
Apple Computer