Re: [misterhouse-users] comics= question

[Rob W. <ro...@my...>]

On Thursday 03 March 2005 06:56 pm, Bruce Winter wrote:
> Rob Walker wrote:
> > How long can comics= be?
> >
> > I tried to set mine in mh.ini to all of the available comics in the
> > strips.def file, reloaded the code via the web interface, loaded it up in
> > the ini editor, and found that it was all truncated somewhere in the
> > c's.....
> >
> > Is there a comics2= ?  a comicsn=, or maybe a comicsnn=
> >
> > rob
>
> I just tried extending the mh.ini comics parm out to 1k characters, then
>   ran mh -debug startup and verified that it was all read in ok.
>
> You can make the parm more readable by simply extending the data to the
> next line.  For example:
>
> comics = dilbert foxtrot userfriendly
>    doonesbury speedbump
>
> I bet the problem is not in the mh parm parser, but rather a Windows
> limit to the lenght of the command you can use.  Looks like that gets
> passed to the dailystrips program on the command line in
> common/comic_dailystrip.pl.
>
> I'm not sure how you would work around that, sort of using Linux ;)

:-)

rob@t41p:~$ uname -a
Linux t41p 2.6.1020050221 #1 Mon Feb 21 21:08:10 PST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux

maybe is was me using the web-based built in ini editor?  :-)

I will try setting the huge comics= in the mh.ini file with the "proper" .ini 
editor (XEmacs), and see how it works out.

rob