# FUP's hard-coded limit

SunRay (sunray@mtvernon1.accessus.net)
Fri, 29 Dec 1995 20:12:15 PST

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    Today at MOO2000, we found two places where the 2048 (ONE_K * 2) limit
    coded in the FUP routines inhibited our use of FUP.  The first occured
    when diskbasing some of the $generic_db's, lines longer than about 2048
    could not be saved entirely without breaking the lines up.  The second
    occured when I started diskbasing mail.. When the length of the
    directory names strung together (padding to make all the dir
    names about equal) approached 2048, some dir's were lost to the
    filelist() builtin, causing some problems when checking for directory
    existence.

    Now I know one solution would be to recompile the server with a higher
    BUF_LEN limit, but I was wondering if any thought had been given to
    removing the hard-coded limit altogether as Pavel has tried to do with
    the LambdaMOO server.

    --
    Jason R. Mills
    SunWizard@EnigMOO,AquaMOO,MOO2000,AussieMOO,Sprawl,Weyrmount,Snow,Ulti
    RayoDeSol@MundoHispano           Archwizard of Rupert
    SunRay everywhere else.