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From: w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: 509?? (Re: Max line length)
Message-ID: <12362@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 89 09:39:53 GMT
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Reply-To: w-colinp@microsoft.uucp (Colin Plumb)
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bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) wrote:
> John Carr and Doug Gwyn both quoted the pANS as requiring compilers to
> accept at least 509 chars of logical line...
> 
> Huh???

512 less a 3-byte EOL sequence.  Consider it to be 512 less CR/LF less
1 for good measure.
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	-Colin (uunet!microsoft!w-colinp)

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