Hello Frank!
Thursday February 05 1998 05:05, Frank Sexton wrote to Kees Bergwerf:
 FS> Thanks for your input Kees!
Well.. it wasn't very much input, but it was nice talking about the Allfix 
settings.
You have read the docs better than I have. I hate reading docs, so I only 
read them when I have to. Allfix works at this end just the way I like it, so 
that's why I thougt that my settings were correct :-/
 KB>> One Line LongDesc      Yes
 FS> Same here.  Works good.  However according to the docs, the
 FS> line length limit (due to the Turbo Pascal compiler) is 255
 FS> chars.
Then it is strange that I have descriptions in my files.bbs that are longer 
than 255 chars (for example, a file_id.diz is 477 bytes and it is completely 
imported in the description in files.bbs). I only use 1-line descriptions, 
because I don't know how to handle multiline desc. with Maximus. Anybody?
That is why..
 FS>> sounds like the longest description I could have would be
 FS>> 255 characters with everything truncated after that.  True?
 KB>> No.
..I wrote that answer.
I think that Allfix can read only 255 char at a time. When it writes those 
lines without a CR, these lines are eh.. put together in 1 line.
So a description line should not be longer than 255 chars.. in file_id.diz or 
in the Desc line in a tic file..
In a filefind-reply, Allfix also gives the total description from files.bbs, 
even when it is longer than 255 chars (1-line desc).
 FS> I've been experimenting and it seems to work the way I've stated above.
Yes, I know that feeling! :-)
Kees
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