Allow variable labels longer than 255 bytes.

[pspp] / doc / dev / system-file-format.texi

diff --git a/doc/dev/system-file-format.texi b/doc/dev/system-file-format.texi
index 2d576733081d3018e402bf7072fae9a3ca63eb6d..0f0940b58f88a2bfe9d13c0678dc52343be14982 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/dev/system-file-format.texi
+++ b/doc/dev/system-file-format.texi
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ This field is present only if @code{has_var_label} is set to 1.  It is
 set to the length, in characters, of the variable label.  The
 documented maximum length varies from 120 to 255 based on SPSS
 version, but some files have been seen with longer labels.  PSPP
-accepts longer labels and truncates them to 255 bytes on input.
+accepts labels of any length.
 
 @item char label[];
 This field is present only if @code{has_var_label} is set to 1.  It has