Old PGN parsers

[Fulvio]

I wonder if there are still software that expect a maximum line length when parsing PGN files.
Do you know any software that fails to parse a large PGN file if all the new lines are converted to spaces?

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sed -z 's/\n/ /g'

[mvanthoor]

I don't know any off-hand, but everything written in old versions of Pascal has a string length limit of 255 characters if I remember correctly. Strings are basically arrays of ints, with the first slot being used to indicate the length of the string. (But newer versions of Pascal do have C-strings.) We're talking about pre-1990 software here; I doubt there's still anything around that is being used outside of DOSBox.