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From: dennison@zippy.cc.ukans.edu (Ted Dennison)
Subject: Re: Reading a line of arbitrary length
Date: 1997/02/13
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In article <330319F1.41C67EA6@innocon.com>,
Jeff Carter  <carter@innocon.com> wrote:
>David C. Hoos, Sr. wrote:
>> 
>> What you do is read into a temporary String of length larger than any you
>> will encounter.  Then you use the value of the actual parameter supplied
>> for the formal parameter "Last" to take the appropriate slice from the
>> temporary string.
>
>This assumes, of course, that you can define a "length larger than any
>you will encounter." In some cases, you cannot. This is still not a
>problem; see "Variable-Length String Input in Ada," _Ada Letters_, 1989
>May/Jun, which presents a function

Hmmm. I thought all unix (and VMS) shells had a command-line limit of 256
characters (or less). Is that not the case?

T.E.D.