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- From: Fred.Puhan@p4219.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Fred Puhan)
- Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
- Path: sparky!uunet!blkcat!Uucp
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
- Subject: Omnis 7
- Message-ID: <711907403.F00004@blkcat.UUCP>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 00:40:51 -0500
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- On 7/22/92, Jerry Sy said to All:
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- > 15 character field names
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- > Mildly annoying, but not despicable. Now 8 characters WOULD be
- > despicable.
- >
- JS> well, that was not really the main point. You get 15 characters
- JS> for your file name (table name) and 15 characters for your field names,
- JS>
- JS> BUT you still get 15 characters if you use the table.field method
- JS> of addressing a field! had they made that 30 characters, it will make
- JS> more sense. because they didn't, you make have to settel for 7
- JS> character table names and field names then, now that is despicable.
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- Version 1.1 (due any day now) does away with the 15-character limit, now
- allowing file and field names up to 255 characters in length...
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