Can't set linel to large value?



On 2/13/11, Matthew Gwynne <mathew.gwynne at gmail.com> wrote:

> We are trying to generate files with very large line lengths and so,
> at some point, we set linel to 10001, and then print using redirected
> ouput. However, we get this error:
>
>> linel : 10001;
> assignment: cannot assign 10001 to linel

Well, I see that MSETCHK in src/mlisp.lisp has this hard-coded
limit in it ... seems pointless. Anyway you can work around it
like this:

:lisp (setq $linel 10001 linel 10001)

HTH

Robert Dodier