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From: henges@ingr.com (John Hengesbach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: TranSkel, TransEdit help...
Keywords: TransSkel, TransEdit
Message-ID: <6383@ingr.com>
Date: 8 Sep 89 15:00:37 GMT
Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, Al
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I am using Transkel, TransEdit, et al. and I have a couple of questions.

1)  Why is there a hard coded limit of 32K for a file to be editted?  I
    hvae seen this on DA's such as MockWrite (only its 28K there).  Is
    this just a "lazier" way of not worrying about whether there will
    be enough memory?  Shouldn't SetHandleSize() work for arbitrary
    lengths of memory, with some method for checking is it worked
    correctly?  Certainly it is possible to edit files (for instance)
    that are greater than some arbitrary limit near this 32K boundary.

2)  On the same thread of thought, once memory is allocated for the
    file in a text window, when/how does it get freed up again?

John (my eventLoop is anxiously awaiting) Hengesbach


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