Re: Standard Input Max Length Limitation

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Matt Lewis wrote:
> I was surprised to find that 
> I could only get 79 characters typed into the console when I run this code:
> }}}
<eucode>
> ? length( gets(0) & 0 ) - 1
> </eucode>
{{{

> I suspect that it's something to do with the console buffer not wanting to 
> do a line wrap, but I haven't dug deep enough to figure out if that's true.
> 
> I haven't tried at all with linux.
> 
> Matt

For what its worth... I ran the code above on my Linux system up to
about 1000 characters. No problem.

Ken Rhodes
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