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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Tony Hafner wrote:
> When I downloaded this part, I can see that Lugnet's DAT download truncated
> the lines to 80 characters. This totally mangled the part. Is this a
> weakness of the Lugnet interface, or is it enforcing a standard?
It's a weakness of the posting method (the file came in via email). I
believe the line-wrapping was performed by Willy's email software.
I recommend that all DAT content be posted via LUGNET's web interface,
to avoid this line-wrapping issue. If using the web interface is not an
option, be sure to change your email/newsreader's line-length setting to
something ridiculously long.
> In other
> words, are part file lines supposed to be limited to 80 characters anyway?
Not generally. Comments and meta-statements should be limited to 80
characters. Title lines (the first line in the file) must be no more
than 66 characters. Code lines (linetypes 1 through 5) should be as
long as they need to be.
Steve
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