Re: Maximum length input line

At 06:22 PM 8/19/00 -0700, I wrote:
>No, the point is not that I want truncated lines but that I want to say 
>"toss/leave back the excess over 100,000 characters when I do a <INPUT>, 
>for I am sure that a line longer than that would be an error of some kind."

I phrased this badly.  I meant to say that I don't want to truncate the 
lines inside the script, because it's already too late then.  Think of this 
as a safety mechanism, like taint.

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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies