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- From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
- Subject: Re: Importing/accessing text files
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.162411.12234@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 16:24:11 +1300
- References: <1992Nov16.155906.8559@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> <1992Nov16.203444.28004@netcom.com>
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- In article <1992Nov16.203444.28004@netcom.com>, cinnibar@netcom.com (Jeff Wood) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov16.155906.8559@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> crawford@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (James E Crawford) writes:
- >>I am looking for a way to have HyperCard access text files between 100k and
- >>300k in size. As I understand it, there is a 30k limit to the amount of text
- >>which can be put into a field. Is there any way around this? or is there any
- >>way to have HyperCard open the text file?
- >>
- >
- > The 30K limit is not on the size of the file you can open, but rather on the
- > amount of data you may have in any one given container.
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- The limit is not on containers in general, it's only on text fields.
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