newbery@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Michael Newbery) (05/19/88)
I imagine a few of you have discovered this but I just thought I'd raise it in case Apple feels like fixing it. MPW does not like very long lines. As example, try editing a Postscript<n> file created by Clover-F when that file has an Adobe downloaded font. MPW tries to display a line several kB long and a LONG pause ensues. It doesn't crash, it just takes time.
gae@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar) (05/22/88)
In article <13623@comp.vuw.ac.nz> newbery@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Michael Newbery) writes: >MPW does not like very long lines. As example, try editing a Postscript<n> >file created by Clover-F when that file has an Adobe downloaded font. >MPW tries to display a line several kB long and a LONG pause ensues. It >doesn't crash, it just takes time. Have you tried loading such a file with MacWrite? -- Gerald A. Edgar TS1871@OHSTVMA.bitnet Department of Mathematics gae@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu The Ohio State University ...{akgua,gatech,ihnp4,ulysses}!cbosgd!osupyr!gae Columbus, OH 43210 70715,1324 CompuServe
dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen) (05/23/88)
The MPW Shell was actually DESIGNED to only handle 132 characters per line, so it is not a bug per se. For MPW 3.0 (coming any day Real Soon Now, by the end of the year if you are lucky), this limit has been upped to 256 or something like that. Sorry folks, but that is how Bill Duvall originally desinged the editor for MDS, and that's where the MPW editor began, so I do not expect it to change in the foreseeable future. There is a quick workaround, however, for files with long lines. Open the file in a word processor, which considers return characters to be paragraph endings, and then resave the text document with line breaks. Example: open in MS Word 3.0x and then save as text with line breaks. Now your text file has (roughly) 80 character lines. Dan Allen Software Explorer Apple Computer