kmw@usl (Kent Michael White) (11/19/87)
I am trying to run a large pic file through eqn. When my picture command file reaches about 44 lines long I get a "line too long" error message when I run the file through eqn. I am using the statement "delim $$" for my eqn commands and an example of a line in my pic file is: line <- " $ v hat $ " It seems to me that pic places all of the pic commands as a single string and then eqn can not handle this long string when the command structure gets to be a certain length. If anyone can tell me how to get around this problem I would appreciate it. Thanks in advance for your help.
gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) (11/20/87)
In article <311@usl> kmw%usl.csnet@csnet-relay (Kent Michael White) writes: >I am trying to run a large pic file through eqn. >When my picture command file reaches about 44 lines long >I get a "line too long" error message when I run the file >through eqn. Yes, several of the DWB tools suffered from undue restrictions on input line length. In the case of "eqn", this is set by a manifest constant MAXLINE within the first few lines of the source file "io.c". If you can't change this and rebuild "eqn" from sources, I don't know what else you can do (other than to fold "pic" output lines before submitting them to "eqn").