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From: pevans@umd5.umd.edu (Peter Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: 32 K limit on field size in HC 1.2 and 2.0
Message-ID: <7374@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 29 Sep 90 03:26:53 GMT
Reply-To: pevans@umd5.umd.edu (Peter Evans)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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I have just come face-to-face with the 32K (or there about) limit
on the amount of material that can be stored in a field.  The
application is that I am reading raw data from a text file into a
field and then doing various data analysis procedures on this.

Does anyone know of any utilities to get around this limitation eg
reading text into a number of fields and then have that appear as a
one big field?

Does HC 2.0 have a similar limit on field length.

Thanks for any assistance,

Peter Evans