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From: jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Pasting text with tabs into a field:  How is it done?
Message-ID: <45399@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 5 Oct 90 22:12:27 GMT
References: <1990Oct5.153806.22574@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
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In article <1990Oct5.153806.22574@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
gwowen@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (George Owen) 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      :-)

16834 characters is the most you can read in from a file in one swoop;
so the repeat loop is needed in case the file is larger than 16K. 30000
is the maximum number of characters you can put in a field, so if the
file is larger than 30K, not all of it will fit in the field, and an error
will be generated when the field overflows.

Sorry about the confusion.
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