I have found that writeconfig chops off config file lines at 80
characters. Note that newconfig happily accepts longer than 80
character lines and keeps them intact. But if you re-write the
config file with writeconfig, it will chop those lines down to 80
characters.
I discovered this problem on a rather long restrict_post line. (I
must say I like the new "MAJORDOMO ABORT ()" messages; quite
helpful!)
I have a few lists that are allowed to cross-post. The first time I
got a majordomo abort message complaining about a restrict_post
filename that was obviously missing the last character, I figured I
must have typed it wrong. By the second list, I knew something else
was wrong.
Anyways, here is my patch. I tried it and it doesn't break anything
as far as I can tell :-)
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--- config_parse.pl.orig Sat Nov 16 15:44:00 1996
+++ config_parse.pl Sat Nov 16 16:12:00 1996
@@ -515,12 +515,12 @@
format OUT =
@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
$key, $intro
^<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< ~~
$comment
-@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< @<< @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
-$key, $op, $value
+ @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< @<< @*
+ $key, $op, $value
.
&main'open_temp(OUT, "$listdir/$list.config.out")
|| &main'abort("Can't create new config file $listdir/$list.config.out");
@@ -586,13 +586,16 @@
print OUT $lval, "\nEND\n"
|| &main'abort("Error writing config file for $list, $!");
$op = '=';
} else {
+ if (! $value ) { $value=" "; }
write(OUT)
|| &main'abort("Error writing config file for $list, $!");
}
+ print OUT "\n"
+ || &main'abort("Error writing config file for $list, $!");
}
$installing_defaults = 0;
close(OUT);
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With this patch, as far as I can tell, there is no specific length
limit. (I didn't want to just add a few more <<<<s and have it break
later.) If someone has a better method, feel free to suggest it.
Thanks!!
- Alan
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