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To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
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Subject: Re: Ack! Help, Andrey! I'm having troubles in libdialog! 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 07 Nov 1995 07:50:22 +0100."
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Date: Tue, 07 Nov 1995 02:19:53 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> One of the rules: Avoid magic numbers...

Unfortunately, in this case it's impossible since I don't know the length
of the potential result string in advance.  I've done the next best thing
which is to add up all the package names in the longest menu and calculate
what the maximum possible result string would be, making it that long.

						Jordan