Hello Michiel!

Wednesday February 12 2014 11:29, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Andrew Leary:

 AL>> The code should handle nodelist lines up to 512 bytes in length.

 MvdV> And gracefully handle longer lines I presume? (Instead of crashing
 MvdV> like the old MakeNl)

 MvdV> [ FTSC bureaucrat mode on ]

 MvdV> From FTS-5000.004:

 MvdV>   For compatibility with certain broken segment processors, nodelist
 MvdV>   maintainers must limit all lines to at most 157 characters (plus
 MvdV>   terminator).  It is very likely this limitation will be removed in
 MvdV>   the future, therefore future software implementations should be able
 MvdV>   to process lines of up to 1024 characters, and individual fields of
 MvdV>   up to 255 characters (unless otherwise specified).

 MvdV> [ off ]

 MvdV> It is no big deal of course, I do not expect to see lines >512 bytes
 MvdV> in the nodelist any time soon. But as you are an FTSC member, you
 MvdV> might consider upping the max line length next time you fire up the
 MvdV> compiler...

 MvdV> Just a suggestion.

I will look into it the next time I'm near that part of the code.

Andrew

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