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- From: bibhas@pico.engr.mun.ca (Bibhas Bhattacharya)
- Subject: Re: Allocate memory to typed in string, How?
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- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 22:51:20 GMT
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- scs@adam.mit.edu (Steve Summit) writes:
-
- >Arbitrary, fixed, (small) limits on input line length ought to be
- >a thing of the past. It's not all that difficult to write an
-
- I too was peeved, by the fact that ULTRIX can take 252 bufferred characters
- at the most. Anything beyond that, as told to me by the more experienced
- programmers, can be acheived by a raw mode reading, i.e., curses
- programming. However, it was quite nice to see that LINUX on the other
- hand, seemed to accept an unlimited number of characters. At least I
- couldn't reach the end.
-
- Cheers.
- Bibhas.
-