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Tables for Crystallography Volume G Definition and exchange of crystallographic data Edited by S. R. Hall and B. McMahon © International Union of Crystallography 2006 |
International Tables for Crystallography (2006). Vol. G. ch. 2.2, p. 23
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The STAR File does not restrict the lengths of text lines. The original CIF specification introduced an 80-character limit to facilitate programming in Fortran and transmission of CIFs by email. Contemporary practices have enabled the line-length limit in the version 1.1 specification to be extended to 2048 characters. While the new limit in effect mandates the use of a 2048-character input buffer in compliant CIF-reading software, there is no obligation on CIF writers to generate output lines of this length.
