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From: boyd@cs.arizona.edu (Boyd A. Burkhardt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: 30,000 Character limit....
Summary: How can you pass more than 30k chars to and from an XFCN?
Message-ID: <479@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 25 Oct 90 07:33:54 GMT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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Ok, I've got a bit of a problem and was wondering if anyone can help.

I have been trying to make an xfcn to do some heavy string manipulation
on a 150,000 to 400,000 character variable from HyperCard.  For some reason,
I cannot seem to get or pass back more than 30,000 characters.  I am NOT
using fields to store the data and I am not using any TextEdit records in
my xfcn so I cannot figure out why this limitation exists.  Is there a way
to directly reference and alter a Hypercard Global without passing it to the
xfcn?  Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 
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