509?? (Re: Max line length)

[Robert Claeson]

In article <2285 at buengc.BU.EDU>, bph at buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
> John Carr and Doug Gwyn both quoted the pANS as requiring compilers to
> accept at least 509 chars of logical line...
> 
> Huh???

On some weird os'es, the longest line that can be read from a text file
is that of a disk block minus one character. Then subtract two characters
for the line delimiter (CR-LF on most os'es). This will give you 509
characters.

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