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From: jeremyr@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Jeremy Roussak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Need an LDEF that breaks the 32K barrier
Message-ID: <3615@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk>
Date: 29 Apr 91 06:26:14 GMT
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Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK.
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In <23645@unix.SRI.COM> mxmora@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora) writes:

>>One easy way round this is to store pointers (or better yet,
>>handles) to your data in the list.  You can then have >100,000
>>items in your list with no problems.

>I would like to see how you get the list manager to deal with
> > 100,000 items with no problems. I see a limit of 8192 by storing ptrs
>or handles in the list. 16384 if you get really tricky.

>Matt
I apologize for the (temporary) brain and arithmetic failure.
It was (or seemed) very late...

Jeremy












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