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Grex Test Item 25: Testing the limits of name length!
Entered by polygon on Fri Jul 19 05:42:01 UTC 1991:

Yet another test item ...

7 responses total.

#1 of 7 by steve on Fri Jul 19 05:46:13 1991:

   I believe that all these limits come down to the fact that the tty
driver only lets 255 characters get stuffed in the input buffer before
it stops further ones from comming in.

#2 of 7 by bad on Fri Jul 19 06:53:26 1991:

Oh hush, STeve. Don't ruin our fun!

#3 of 7 by mdw on Fri Jul 19 08:38:39 1991:

Steve is now going to explain why DEC uses 512 bytes for their
block size, not 256, & how this limit is related to the Unix tty driver.

#4 of 7 by shannara on Sat Jul 20 00:59:44 1991:

we're waiting, Steve...B-)

#5 of 7 by steve on Sat Jul 20 02:35:42 1991:

   Blurf.   I got rid of my DEC novels long ago.  ;-)  If I devote some
time to this, I can probably dig it up from some knowledge mausoleum...

#6 of 7 by genesis on Sat Jul 20 07:36:28 1991:

Hmmmmmmm, It boggles the mind it do..

#7 of 7 by sungc on Fri May 29 16:49:36 1998:

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