Hellmuth Michaelis writes:
>>From the keyboard of Mike Long:
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>> No, that's a problem with the pcvt25h entry.  There is too much code
>> out there that assumes that termcap entries fit into a 1024-byte
>> buffer to solve this problem by expanding tset's buffer.
>
>Hmmm, i really don't know what to think about this. It is correct, that
>there is _much_ software out there which has a hardcoded 1024 byte limit
>for a termcap entry. But a termcap entry can be much larger than 1024
>bytes. So - is there a 1024 size limit for termcap entries specified
>somewhere ?
>
>Don't misunderstand me. I just want a clean solution. If there is a limit
>of 1024 bytes per entry specified somewhere (implicit or explicit), pcvt's
>termcap entry should be stripped down to 1024 bytes.
>
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This limit appears to be documented in the termcap manual pages from both
SunOS and the 4.4BSD crowd.. I'd guess it's documented like that all the 
way back to 4.0BSD..?