Re: Apple and the Holy War

[bctimes@hotmail.com (Forrest)]

Somewhere, pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote:

>>> That's a display issue, not an editor issue.  Sometimes I encounter
>>> text files from the outside, with line lengths exceeding 80 or even
>>> 255 characters.  Why should a good editor puke at such a text file?
>> 
>> There's a difference between wrapping lines and "puking".
> 
>If lines are wrapped, no line limit has been reached.  The line limit
>is reached when the editor pukes, or does nasty things like silently
>truncating the line at the limit.

Okay, in that case AW has a line limit of ~1,000,000 characters.  Thought you 
meant logical display width.

>Perhaps I should also remind you that, to me, CP/M was the OS I did
>my serious stuff on, on the Apple II.

Pity the TRS-80 Model II didn't come out earlier; by the specifications, it 
would've suited you better.

>Because DOS 3.2 imposed an
>upper limit of 32000 bytes on any file - including text files !!!

Which had a one-byte fix if I recall correctly...but I don't think Apple 
bothered to issue any notification about it, or a patch.