Re: max. line limit to recipe?

"James L. McGill" <fishbowl(_at_)fotd(_dot_)netcomi(_dot_)com> writes:
> Is there a limit to the length of a line in a recipe?
To quote the procmailrc(5) manpage:

     LINEBUF     Length of the internal line buffers,  cannot  be
                 set  smaller  than 128.  All lines read from the
                 rcfile should  not  exceed  $LINEBUF  characters
                 before  and  after expansion.  If not specified,
                 it defaults to 2048.   This  limit,  of  course,
                 does  not  apply  to  the mail itself, which can
                 have arbitrary  line  lengths,  or  could  be  a
                 binary file for that matter.
 
Philip Guenther