Re: MRC input line limitations
  By: Va7aqd to echicken on Fri May 03 2019 09:03:07

 Va> I was wondering if there was any way to expand the input line buffer to
 Va> something a little longer? I've found a couple of times so far where I had

 Va> don't know what the protocol allows, but the 140 chars can be tough!

The protocol imposes some limitations, so I doubt if I can give more than that.
Each line sent to the server is capped at 255 chars, and is made up of seven
fields.  The fields are things like to & from user, to & from BBS, to & from
"room", and then the message text.  Each field has a length limit.

The best I could do, if it doesn't violate anything, would be to make the
message text length dynamic based on the user's name, BBS name, and channel
they're in.  Could eke out some more space, but likely only 50 chars or so for
most people.  (This would be difficult to apply to private messages though,
without making things more complicated than it's worth.)

Alternately I could look at just making it break up long messages and sending
them in chunks.  There's already some stuff in there for that.

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