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From: TALLEY-J@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu (James T. Talley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Are long card names legal?
Keywords: long names
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Date: 14 Feb 90 20:46:13 GMT
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I have noticed that you can set the name of a card to some fairly long
strings (>30 characters), but that the "go" command stops functioning
for cards with names longer than 29 characters.  In other words,

  put "This is a test of rather long card names" into x
  go to cd x

will _not_ take you to the card named "This is a test of rather long
card names".  I've verified the name of the card with the "put" command
so it's not the case that there is no such card.

Is this a known limitation?  Should I limit my card names to 29 or fewer
characters?  Is this also a problem with field, button, and background
names?  (Obviously a stack name can be no longer than a valid file name.)
Should I RTFM?  If so, which FM?  :-)

James