Subject: trouble with pico spliting long lines

From: "Sys. Admin." <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 1995 21:21:38 GMT

can pico be told *not* to wrap/split long lines??

its causing toruble with /etc/aliases as that requires 1 line per entry. 

thanks....
                               fuzzy
                               sysadmin, asarian.org

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From: [email-masked] (Marcos Rubinstein)
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 06:03:07 GMT

Sys. Admin. ([email-masked]) decia:

: can pico be told *not* to wrap/split long lines??

: its causing toruble with /etc/aliases as that requires 1 line per entry. 

: thanks....
:                                fuzzy
:                                sysadmin, asarian.org

  use the -w switch.

  pico -w file.name

  Pucho

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From: [email-masked] (Fuzzy)
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 02:12:07 GMT

Nancy McGough ([email-masked]) wrote:
: "Sys. Admin." <[email-masked]> writes:
: >can pico be told *not* to wrap/split long lines??

: Use `pico -w filename' - I think it can handle lines up to 256
: characters long.

*sigh* tried this... still splits the long lines :(.

do we have to do something during compile time to activate the -w 
option?

                               fuzzy

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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: 13 Mar 1995 13:48:48 GMT

>can pico be told *not* to wrap/split long lines??

Use `pico -w filename' - I think it can handle lines up to 256
characters long.
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From: [email-masked] (Matt Messina)
Date: 15 Mar 1995 02:56:40 GMT

>do we have to do something during compile time to activate the -w 

The -w option disables word wrap, (automatically moving words at the end
of a line to the next line).  It doesn't stop pico from splitting lines
that it thinks are too long when it reads in a file. 

Maybe you could modify the pico source (disclaimer: I've never even seen
the pico source) to allow lines that are long enough for your purposes.  I
doubt you'll be able to get pico to allow lines of arbitrary length
without rewriting it. 
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