st: {smcl} link problem

[Sergiy Radyakin <serjradyakin@gmail.com>]

Dear All,

I don't know which limit from 'help limits'  is applicable in this
case, but it seems that ~244 is rather a small number here. I would
imagine that "# of characters in a command" is more suitable.
In the following code snippet the smcl link gets corrupted after the
link text becomes too long (in my code the list supplied to the link
is list of different variables of course):

*   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *
 *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *
mata

adjvars=""
for(v=1;v<=99;v++) {
  v
  adjvars=adjvars+" x12345"
  printf("{text}Message: {stata " + `"""' + "describe " +
adjvars+`"":"'+"INFO"+"}")
  ""
}

end
*   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *
 *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *
Can somebody please confirm that 244 is indeed an intended and
unavoidable limit on such a link size, or is it a bug and is there a
workaround?

Stata 12/MP/Windows

Thank you, Sergiy Radyakin
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