draft ANSI standard: needs your tomatoes

[Wayne Throop]

> henry at utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)

>> ... The constants EXTERNAL_NAME_LENGTH (6), INCLUDE_FILES_NEST
>> (4), and SOURCE_LINE_LENGTH (509) in particular seem to be very
>> inadequate...
> SOURCE_LINE_LENGTH is a bit curious, and the choice
> of minimum value for it is truly bizarre.

"Bizarre?" Really?  Isn't that the longest ANSI varying length format
record which will fit into a 512-byte block?  Oops, no that would be
508... hmmmmmmmm... where DOES that limit come from?

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Wayne Throop      <the-known-world>!mcnc!rti-sel!dg_rtp!throopw