Re: ~~ [Lynx-dev] Increasing dump width

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Barry Haddow wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'd like to set a fairly large dump width so that lynx does not insert extra
> line breaks when run with the -dump option.
>
> Using the -width option, I can't increase the width beyond 1000. There seems
> to be a hard cap in the source (MAX_COLS), but when I recompile with MAX_COLS
> defined to 9999 I'm still finding the width capped at around 1080.

There's more than one limit - MAX_LINE for instance, which I suspect is
the most likely one.

Just looking for 1024's in the code will find most of the related 
#define's. (I see some scattered 512's and 4096's - it's likely that the 
larger numbers are powers of 2).

> I've attached an example of a html page which illustrates the problem.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> thanks in advance,
>
> regards
> Barry
>
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