Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Path: utzoo!utgpu!gwowen
From: gwowen@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (George Owen)
Subject: Re: Pasting text with tabs into a field:  How is it done?
Message-ID: <1990Oct5.153806.22574@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Organization: UTCS Public Access
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 90 15:38:06 GMT

In article <45362@apple.Apple.COM> jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto) writes:
>    open file myFile
>    repeat until it is empty   -- in other words, until there ain't no more
>      read from file myFile for 16834          -- maximum length
>                                ^^^^^
>   ...etc
>
>Note that the above handler will trigger an error if the file contains
>more than 30,000 characters or so (the maximum number of characters for
           ^^^^^^

     ... um , I'm a little confised about the max number of chars per field

     ... as you see one number is 16 K and the other states about 30 K ...


     ... WHICH IS IT !!!!!!!   ARRRRRGGGHHHH      :-)


         - G -


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