At 11:39 AM -0700 4/19/01, Peter Prymmer wrote:
>On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Charles Lane wrote:
>As a first pass I can handle a long extensions='' since we are still about
>a factor of 4 below the 1024 limit.
and write/symbol gets you 2048 (sorry if that's already been
mentioned -- I'm a bit behind on this thread)
> > We could split 'em all at 80 (72?) columns and make old-time Fortran
>> programmers like me happy.
>
>I split things in myread at 80. A more sophisticated approach would parse
>through the output of SHOW TERMINAL and readjust the right hand margin
>accordingly.
$ termwidth = f$getdvi("sys$output","devbufsiz")
but what to do in batch mode?
> > If we go whole-hog with splitting lines in config.sh, then there'd
> > be one line per extension:
This approach makes sense to me. I think it's actually less ugly
(i.e. more readable) for someone who just wants to do a quick edit
than having them all on one very long line.
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