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List:       listar-support
Subject:    [Listar-support] Parsing a really long description
From:       "Michael S. Johnson" <michj () nausicaa ! net>
Date:       1999-07-27 8:50:13
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On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, JT wrote:

> No.   Listar really has no inherent limits on that description except
> currently the size of the internal read/write buffers and those will be
> going away.   The description will be line wrapped correctly at need.

[Avoiding posting a Listar-specific question on the MLMAP list.]

If a long description will be wrapped in output, what will happen to it in
the config file?  What about text editors which cannot handle line lengths
greater than 255, or (gasp) 80 characters?  Will people who edit a list's
config file be limited to using either text editors which can avoid word
wrap, or 'sed'/'perl'/'awk', etc. to avoid corrupting the config file?

Or can a line ending in a backslash character be used to escape newlines?

Will listar read

description = foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo1 \
              foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo2 \
              foo

as

"foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo1             foo
foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo2              foo"?

or

"foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo1 foo foo foo foo
foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo2 foo"


or

"foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo1 
foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo2 
foo"?


-- 
Thanks,
Michael 

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