From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Oct 22 10:51:12 1995 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA29698 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 22 Oct 1995 10:51:12 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA29657 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 1995 10:50:56 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id SAA25422; Sun, 22 Oct 1995 18:50:53 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id SAA27661; Sun, 22 Oct 1995 18:50:52 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id SAA02790; Sun, 22 Oct 1995 18:33:53 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199510221733.SAA02790@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Porters: Please shorten your "one line comments" a little if you can! To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 18:33:52 +0100 (MET) Cc: ports@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <22570.814372215@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Oct 22, 95 07:30:15 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 434 Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > How many characters is the maximum, Jordan? > > It depends on the length of the longest name field in the menu. > Sorry, that's just the way libdialog does it. So you say, for example "87 - strlen(max(all package names of this dir))"? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)