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From: maller@applelink.apple.com (Steve Maller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: 30,000 Character limit....
Message-ID: <11031@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 30 Oct 90 22:04:47 GMT
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In article <479@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> boyd@cs.arizona.edu (Boyd A. 
Burkhardt) writes:
> 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.

What development system are you using? And what version of HyperCard? This 
should be no sweat. However, you have to have GOBS of memory because your variable, as well as the COPY of it that's passed to your XCMD, must all fit in RAM.

Steve Maller
HyperCard Engineering Team
Apple Computer
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