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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: functions, packages & characters
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 22:55:40 -0500
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I believe this is what David is saying.  Normally when you write code to
accept arbitrarily large input, you write it so that it's only constraint is
memory.

-CRM

"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
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> David Starner wrote:
> > 1500 was meant as an arbitrarily large value.
>
> No arbitrary value is large enough. You *must* provide
> for input buffer size limited only by memory constraints,
> or you will cause some innocent user needless grief.
>
> As I said before, my troublesome case was a .newsrc file,
> plain text, where one line was several hundred thousand
> characters long. Fortunately, I was using tools which
> handled it with aplomb.
>