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From: David Starner <dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu>
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Subject: Re: functions, packages & characters
Date: 26 Feb 2002 21:43:02 GMT
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On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:44:18 -0500, Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote:
> David Starner wrote:
>> Why? I can think of many cases where the normal case may be 40-50
>> characters, but for robustness, you need the possibility of handling
>> lines 1500 characters long.
> 
> No, no, a thousand times no! 

1500 was meant as an arbitrarily large value.

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