> "PS" == Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PS> No, the point is not that I want truncated lines but that I want to say
PS> "toss/leave back the excess over 100,000 characters when I do a ,
PS> for I am sure that a line longer than that would be an error of some
PS> kind."
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Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 20:59:26 -0400
From: Jerrad Pierce
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At 08:59 PM 8/19/00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Au contraire; sysread reads exactly the number of characters requested;
> >what I want is a way for programs that do all over the place to be
> >protected if someone throws a gargantuan number of characters at FH without
> >a newline. The $/
