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Entry  10 Dec 2015, Amy Roberts, Suggestion, script command limited to 256 characters; remove limit? 
    Reply  28 Jan 2016, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, script command limited to 256 characters; remove limit? 
       Reply  28 Jan 2016, Amy Roberts, Suggestion, script command limited to 256 characters; remove limit? 
          Reply  26 Feb 2016, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, script command limited to 256 characters; remove limit? 
Message ID: 1150     Entry time: 10 Dec 2015     Reply to this: 1157
Author: Amy Roberts 
Topic: Suggestion 
Subject: script command limited to 256 characters; remove limit?  
Both the /Script and /CustomScript trees in the ODB allow users to trigger a 
script via Midas - which silently truncates command strings longer than 
256 characters.

I'd prefer that Midas place no limit on string length.  Failing that, it would be
helpful to have character limits called out in the documentation 
(https://midas.triumf.ca/MidasWiki/index.php//Script_ODB_tree#.3Cscript-name.3E_key_or_subtree,
https://midas.triumf.ca/MidasWiki/index.php//Customscript_ODB_tree).

As far as I can tell, odb.c allows arbitrarily large strings in the ODB data.  
(Although key *names* are restricted to 256 characters.)  I've submitted one 
possible version of an arbitrary-length exec_script() as a pull request 
(https://bitbucket.org/tmidas/midas/pull-requests/).

Am I misunderstanding any critical pieces?  Does Midas intentionally treat 
strings in the ODB as limited to 256 characters?
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