From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca>
Subject: Re: Beginer problem: variable array size
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 12:31:43 -0400
Date: 2002-09-20T12:31:43-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D8B4D6F.1000608@cogeco.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1032533590.712308@master.nyc.kbcfp.com
Hyman Rosen wrote:
> Larry Kilgallen wrote:
...
> MDC wrote:
> > The reality is that by putting a requirement out there
> > that there must be no limit on the number of elements
> > accepted, you create a difficulty that doesn't normally
> > exist in the real world.
>
> I've talked about this before. Until the GNU people came
> along and rewrote the UNIX text utilities, they would
> constantly and inconsistently return wrong results because
> of arbitrary limits, such as maximum line sizes. To this day,
> I cannot use vi on a Sun in an xterm that is "too wide".
...
I remember hitting line length limits on SCO UNIX's _xterm_
sessions. Grrrr.
--
Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg
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2002-09-15 14:53 Beginer problem: variable array size Nacho
2002-09-15 16:45 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-09-15 16:16 ` Nacho
2002-09-15 16:26 ` Ludovic Brenta
2002-09-15 17:46 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-09-15 18:27 ` Pascal Obry
2002-09-15 20:03 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-09-17 14:22 ` Ted Dennison
2002-09-18 11:53 ` Marin David Condic
2002-10-02 15:08 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-10-03 12:17 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-19 0:43 ` Robert A Duff
2002-09-19 1:25 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-09-19 14:17 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-09-20 3:06 ` Munch
2002-09-20 4:49 ` Jim Rogers
2002-09-20 6:35 ` tmoran
2002-09-20 16:00 ` Pat Rogers
2002-09-20 16:07 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-20 20:15 ` Pat Rogers
2002-09-20 12:11 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-20 13:59 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-09-20 14:55 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-09-20 16:10 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-09-20 16:31 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG [this message]
2002-09-24 12:41 ` Thomas Dickey
2002-09-21 10:44 ` Thomas Dickey
2002-09-23 13:37 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-09-22 13:00 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-26 3:37 ` Kevin Cline
2002-09-26 12:42 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-22 12:49 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-20 16:28 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-09-20 17:49 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-09-21 7:30 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-23 13:41 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-09-22 3:34 ` Ted Dennison
2002-09-22 13:18 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-24 16:55 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-09-25 12:06 ` Marin David Condic
2002-09-21 22:23 ` tmoran
2002-09-23 13:53 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-09-23 15:19 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-09-23 16:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-09-23 17:09 ` tmoran
2002-09-23 18:18 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-09-23 19:53 ` tmoran
2002-09-23 20:32 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-09-23 20:10 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2002-09-23 23:09 ` tmoran
2002-09-24 2:33 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2002-09-24 12:36 ` Marin David Condic
2002-10-02 15:13 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-09-19 20:25 ` Brian Gaffney
2002-09-17 10:20 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-10-02 15:04 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-10-02 16:26 ` Preben Randhol
2002-10-02 19:53 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-10-03 12:31 ` Marin David Condic
2002-10-03 15:15 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-10-21 23:38 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-10-22 14:11 ` Matthew Heaney
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