I'd note that while the current maximum width of lines is enforced to 76 chars, they happen to be 78 char long (because of an extra LDIF_KLUDGE set to 1 and, I guess, of the leading blank).

In any case, in the spirit of being liberal when needed, I have nothing against allowing OpenLDAP tools to visualize LDIF with arbitrary width, as soon as the default behavior remains the original one, in order to avoid breaking existing software.

See http://www.openldap.org/its?findid=6645.

p.