Maybe a little bug in Xboard 4.9.1

[OliverBr]

Hello together, hello @hgm, (How can I adress hgm in a forum post?)

I got a problem wit Xboard 4.9.1 (on Macosx) that I cannot load pgns, that have to many characters in one line.

E.g.: https://ccrl.live/pgns/The_Great_Kiwi_H ... el_2.0.pgn

I have to download and split them manually into a couple of lines.
If this a general issue, and if yes, maybe there could be a fix for it?

It would be very very kind!
Thank you.

[Roland Chastain]

Hello Oliver.

I changed the value of PARSEBUFSIZE (in parser.c) to 20 000 (instead of 10 000), and after that I could load and replay your PGN until the end.

[abulmo2]

Hello together, hello @hgm, (How can I adress hgm in a forum post?)

I got a problem wit Xboard 4.9.1 (on Macosx) that I cannot load pgns, that have to many characters in one line.

E.g.: https://ccrl.live/pgns/The_Great_Kiwi_H ... el_2.0.pgn

I have to download and split them manually into a couple of lines.
If this a general issue, and if yes, maybe there could be a fix for it?

It would be very very kind!
Thank you.

The bug is in the pgn. According to the pgn specification a line should not exceed 255 characters:

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4.3: Line lengths

PGN data are organized as simple text lines without any special bytes or markers for secondary record structure imposed by specific operating systems. Import format PGN text lines are limited to having a maximum of 255 characters per line including the newline character. Lines with 80 or more printing characters are strongly discouraged because of the difficulties experienced by common text editors with long lines.

In some cases, very long tag values will require 80 or more columns, but these are relatively rare. An example of this is the "FEN" tag pair; it may have a long tag value, but this particular tag pair is only used to represent a game that doesn't start from the usual initial position.