"mark lewis"  wrote in
news:00000361@net396.fidonet.org: 

> + User FidoNet address: 1:3634/12
>  On Sat, 22 Nov 2014, Jax wrote to All:
> 
>  J> From: Jax 
> 
>  J> Dustin it may not be a bug but it's a shortcoming of ASIC. As
>  you J> know it's called ASIC because of it's many shortcomings.
> 
> ASIC's 80 character string limit is no more a shortcoming then
> pascal's 255 character limit in strings is a shortcoming... there
> are ways to work around it if one had mind to do so... for the
> most part, it is sufficient, though... today's pascal (and other
> languages) allow for longer strings to be used but there are still
> some OS imposed limits on command line lengths... 

Mark it seems to me that an 80 character limit is more restricting
than a 255 character limit. That's why it's a shortcoming. Just
saying! 

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Jax        

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