From: Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 20:26:41 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Allow for larger terminal emulators.
X-Git-Tag: 1.12~8
X-Git-Url: http://thyrsus.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=08a9dac7690791ed4f71af8ebe1544374ba688be;p=vms-empire.git

Allow for larger terminal emulators.
---

diff --git a/empire.h b/empire.h
index 8f028f3..729852f 100644
--- a/empire.h
+++ b/empire.h
@@ -36,7 +36,15 @@ typedef long count_t;	/* for iterating over or counting board locations */
 
 #define NUMTOPS 3 /* number of lines at top of screen for messages */
 #define NUMSIDES 6 /* number of lines at side of screen */
-#define STRSIZE 80 /* number of characters in a string */
+
+/*
+ * This used to be 80, and that was appropriate back when this game was
+ * played on hardware terminals.  Nowadays it's almost certain to be running 
+ * on a software terminal emulator that would have been considered 
+ * dizzyingly huge back in the day.  Memory is cheap, we'll leave some
+ * headroom.
+ */
+#define STRSIZE 400 /* number of characters in a string */
 
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