The acceptability of length limitations depends upon their values. Passwords or userids that may be at most 8 characters in length are unacceptable today.
A limitation to at most 2^15 - 1 = 32767 characters is, in my view at least, unobjectionable. Larger limitations like this one are often reflections of control-block overflow problems in some procedural language. These limitations can be circumvented, but the concatenation schemes that do so are very tedious. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
