OpenEuphoria

Re: Standard Input Max Length Limitation

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at gmail.com> Jun 26, 2007
• 740 views

Pete Lomax wrote:
> 
> Matt Lewis wrote:
> > Is there a particular reason why you want to run under DOS instead of
> > windows?  You can use exwc.exe, which is the console version of the
> > interpreter for windows.
> I thought about that but a test showed it limited input to 79 characters!
> 

Whoops, you're correct, of course.  Since I've piped things much bigger than
that through stdin, I assumed that it would work, but it seems that euphoria
detects whether stdin is really the keyboard, and modifies behavior
accordingly.  

There's nothing obvious (to me) that's limiting the input size.  My suspicion
is that it has something to do with the way Rob handles stdin/stdout under
windows.  In particular, this line from be_w.c looks suspicious:

    screen_loc.Right = 79;

Matt