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- From: ralphs@halcyon.com (Ralph Sims)
- Subject: Re: Work-around for 255 line editor limit under 1.65/Unix?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.161423.21615@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer)
- Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
- References: <c4g2wB3w165w@netlink.cts.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 16:14:23 GMT
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- system@netlink.cts.com (System Administrator) writes:
-
- >I'd really like for our users to be able to make posts with
- >more than 253 lines, without having to resort to giving them
- >access to vi (or somesuch). Anyone have any easy tweeks to
- >the code to fix this, without hosing something else?
-
- The buflines parameter in the static file controls this. Be careful
- that you don't exceed memory requirements--the larger the number of
- buflines, the more memory you'll use, and the more likely the system
- will not work as expected.
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