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From: charles@tasis.eecs.utas.edu.au (Charles Lakos)
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Subject: Re: HyperCard 2.0's field size limits
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Date: 10 Jun 90 14:00:00 GMT
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A short while back I asked if the limit of 30000 characters per field was to 
be removed in version 2.0.  I was asked to summarise to the net.  I received
the following response from Aron Roberts:
>   From the May Developers' Conference notes:  HyperCard 2.0 uses
> the styled TextEdit from System 6.0.5, which (I believe) retains
> a 32KB limit.
> 
>   I agree with you that this limit seems prohibitive for many
> commonplace purposes.  I now vaguely remember hearing at the conference
> that this limit will go away when and if a new version of TextEdit
> supports a larger record (i.e. document) size.
> 
> Aron

Thanks Aron,

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Charles Lakos                                   charles@tasis.eecs.utas.edu.au
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
University of Tasmania
Tasmania, Australia.