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- From: demerit@vms.macc.wisc.edu (J. DeMerit)
- Subject: Re: increasing the max field length in HC from 30K?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.182235.25180@macc.wisc.edu>
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- Organization: University of Wisconsin Academic Computing Center
- Date: 16 NOV 92 12:16:38
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- warner@mtu.edu (Thumper (Nate)) writes...
-
- >I have an HC stack that record the contents of disks, including what's in
- >compact pro and stuffit archives. Unfortunately, a few of my archives consist
- >of more than 30K in info. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to
- >increase the max size of a field. This would help me a lot. Pre-Thanks!
-
- I have thought of this problem before. One sloppy hack would be to have
- overlapping fields and when you reach the end of the first scroll field (the
- first 30K) a hidden scroll field number 2 would appear and you could continue
- in that field for another 30K.
-
- I haven't actually executed this, but I think it is possible. Perhaps you
- would check the scroll of field 1 and when its at the end scroll setting, you
- bring up field 2.
-
- I hope this is somewhat inspiring :)
-