[Cook] Over-riding cook's default line wrapping: Can it be done?

[Simon Clift]

Hi folks,

Cook's wrapped lines are confusing my editor when it looks for error
output in the Howto.list file.  I was hoping to over-ride the wrap
function, but I can't seem to and was wondering, please, if anyone
knew if it was possible.

There appears to be a reference to a COLS environment variable
in the source code common/page.c.  However the wrap() function in 
common/error.c seems hard coded to use its own PAGE_WIDTH macro.
The wrap() in common/error_intl.c  seems to use a page_width_get
routine in common/page.c an in turn default_page_sizes().

Setting COLS doesn't work for me (setenv COLS 400).  I still get
material wrapped at 80 columns.  There seemed to be a -Page_Width
option defined but that isn't working for me either.

Any help would be appreciated...

Thanks and best regards,
--- Simon

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Simon Clift                  E-mail: ssclift at math dot uwaterloo dot ca
Ph.D. Student
Scientific Computation Group
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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