Re: Maximum size (length) of an alias

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From: Rich Salz
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 1990 18:59

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In <11854@ogicse.ogi.edu> schaefer@ogicse.ogi.edu (Barton E. Schaefer) writes:
>The reason that mush "started behaving strange" is that it began attempting
>to execute the trailing part(s) of the line, beyond BUFSIZ, as commands.
Oooh, bummer.

Whenever you do "fgets()" you should always check for a trailing newline,
and if you don't find one, read until you do after printing a diagnostic.
	/r$
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Subject: Re: Maximum size (length) of an alias
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