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From: time@ice.com (Tim Endres)
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Subject: Re: Need an LDEF that breaks the 32K barrier
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Date: 29 Apr 91 15:34:01 GMT
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In article <3615@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk>, jeremyr@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Jeremy Roussak) 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...

There was a List Manager replacement posted here a year or two ago
with complete sources. That would be a good place to start a project
for the "immense" List Manager. As people pointed out, the Apple List
Manager has some hard limits.

tim.

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