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Subject: Re: "take too long" error
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thank you. just a note to say your advice helped. I did have a large (by
Kermit standards) while loop so I learned how to do macros better and built
some subroutines. it seems to work nicely now
thanks again!
Frank da Cruz wrote:
>: i am running WinNT 4.0 with the K95 we bought this summer (v. 13). i
>: have a .ksc that is about 8K bytes and has about 200+ lines. it acts fine
>: till i add line (like "echo {hello}" (it doesnt matter what, or i add
>: several comment lines) then i get the error below. am i running into
>: some limit? i have looked in the manual, in the "help files" and on the
>: kermit page. what am i missing?
>: ...
>: Beginining to process the list file (c:\k95\\file.lst) . . .
>: ?Error in TAKE command file: Line too long or contains NUL characters
>:
>This usually means that a command in your KSC file is longer than the
>command buffer. Note that a macro definition is a single command, even if
>it is continued on many lines. The limit in Kermit 95 is 4K. If you have
>a macro definition that is longer than 4K, you'll need to break it up into
>"submacros". The same applies to FOR and WHILE loops, XIF-ELSE
>constructions, and SWITCH statements.
>
>- Frank