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From: sirkm@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Greg Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: "Couldn't set that field."
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Date: 20 Jul 89 17:56:15 GMT
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Reply-To: sirkm@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Greg Anderson)
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If I try to put more than 29,997 characters into a field, HyperCard
gives me the message "Couldn't set that field".  I thought that the
limit was 32K characters; 29,997 is certainly a strange number.

The same limit does not seem to be imposed on HyperCard variables,
though; I just placed 60,000 characters into a global variable,
and HyperCard did not complain.

Is there a limit on the number of characters that a variable can
contain (other than available memory)?  Does anyone know why
the limit for a text field is 29,997, rather than some sane
number like 30,000 or 32,767?

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