Subj : LordStat info
To   : Donald Tidmore
From : Michael Preslar
Date : Tue Dec 13 2005 10:40 am

  Re: LordStat info
  By: Donald Tidmore to All on Wed Dec 07 2005 11:02 pm

 > I'm trying to do a newer version for personal usage of Lordmenu using the
 > original code
 > given to me by Robert Fogt, but so far can not get it to make a 3rdalt.txt t
 > conforms
 > to the requirements of Lord 4.07 beta and Lord/32 beta.  According to Michae
 > Preslar,
 > who told me what went wrong with 3rdalt.txt, the file can not contain any li
 > that
 > are longer than 255 characters.  LORD now shows the Lordmenu-generated
 > 3rdalt.txt
 > files all scrunched up into four or so lines on-screen, rendering the utilit
 > worthless
 > for users of Lord 4.07 beta. 

Correction.

Not just Lord 4.07 but _any_ version of lord. Actually, any program written
in Borland Pascal or Turbo Pascal would have the same anomoly.

Strings in Pascal have a max length of 255 characters. And when you do a
readln(tf,s); (which s being defined as var s:String), it will only read the
first 255 characters of the line and then move on to the next line.
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