On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> Last time I checked, the text files never had lines longer than 200 
> characters (I chose this intentionally large). So, it might be a good 
> heuristic to check the maximal line length,

No, some broken editor programs and people use "flowing text" files, where 
a newline is actually a _paragraph_ end. You have lines in the hundreds 
(and thousands) of characters, and the program will just flow the text for 
you.

Ugh. Horrible, I know. 

		Linus
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