Continuation lines in dfstab

[Bill Costigan]

Is there a way to make continuation lines in the dfstab file? I tried ending the previous line with the '\' and that doesn't seem to work.

I cannot find anything in the man pages.

Thanks

[Dennis Handly]

If "\" doesn't work, just use long lines.

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

Many HP-UX files require long lines. If you use a terminal emulator set to 80 columns, change it to 100 or 150. Be aware that vi handles line lengths up to 4,000 characters. The vi commands $ and 0 (zero) will take you to the end of a line and beginning of the line respectively. Configuration files in general do not use \ to create a continuation line.

[Dennis Handly]

>Bill: Be aware that vi handles line lengths up to 4,000 characters.

Hmm. Contrary to the documentation, I can only get 2,800 bytes.

[Dennis Handly]

>I can only get 2,800 bytes.

Hmm, it appears this is related to the dimensions of the window. A larger window is needed, otherwise I get:
Internal error: vredraw

(Why was that so easy? )-:

[Bill Costigan]

Thank you for the replies. 2800 byte lines should be enough. Continuations lines would have made the file more readable for a human and that was what I was hoping to do.

I was also concerned that I might not be able to go over 265 bytes or some such number which would not have been enough.