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From: prc@maxim.ERBE.SE (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: 509?? (Re: Max line length)
Message-ID: <625@maxim.ERBE.SE>
Date: 15 Mar 89 17:07:51 GMT
References: <2102@jasper.UUCP> <207600017@s.cs.uiuc.edu> <2285@buengc.BU.EDU>
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In article <2285@buengc.BU.EDU>, bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
> John Carr and Doug Gwyn both quoted the pANS as requiring compilers to
> accept at least 509 chars of logical line...
> 
> Huh???

On some weird os'es, the longest line that can be read from a text file
is that of a disk block minus one character. Then subtract two characters
for the line delimiter (CR-LF on most os'es). This will give you 509
characters.

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