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From: edmoy@violet.berkeley.edu
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Subject: Re: Printing Fields XCMD
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Date: 25 Mar 88 18:30:32 GMT
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In article <220100010@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>	I have been working on an XCMD that will allow you to print a Scrolling
>Field in Hypercard.  I thought I had the little bugger done until, while
>testing, I discovered that the GetField... calls all return handles to STRINGs
>and not to text therefore limiting the fields to 255 chars.  So out the window
>went all my previous code and it was back to the drawing board.

I've written a special purpose XCMD to dump all the fields of a stack in
a special format.  It does a GetFieldByName() on all fields and works
fine (I just tried it on a 648 character field).  The handle returned
is a handle to a null-terminated string (ala C string).  I'm using LSC and
the LSCXCM glue routines.

Edward Moy
Workstation Software Support Group
University of California
Berkeley, CA  94720

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