New sample readers.conf file

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Wed Apr 26 04:34:46 UTC 2000


Todd Olson <tco2 at cornell.edu> writes:

> It would be nice for this file to state the maximum line length for the
> file.

It states that (8192).

> It would be nice for one of the examples to show how to handle lines
> longer than 80characters (just to demonstrate that there are no
> continuation characters)

I added an explanation of this to the introduction rather than as an
example (makes the examples a little ugly; I have plans in the works for
2.4 that will allow line continuation, so hopefully this won't be an issue
forever).

> In the case that one wants a hosts line that is longer than the max length
> it would be nice to have an example of how to do this...
>    a) is it just multiple host lines in one stanza?
>    b) is it multiple stanzas that map to the same access group?

Multiple stanzas, I'm pretty sure.  Added an explanation of that too.

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