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troff et al., insufficient buffer size, rtpc 6.4r

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (geer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jan 17 12:45:06 1990

From: geer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 90 12:44:52 -0500
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU

string definitions in our current nroff/psroff are limited
to 64 characters, which is unnecessarily insufficient.

a quick UTSL says:

/paris/third/ditroff/troff/tdef.h

    (line 122)  #define NS      64      /* name buffer */

this should be increased to a value reasonable to hold
an arbitrary athena pathname...

--dan


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