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- From: ffang@newsuiowa.edu (Francis Fang)
- Subject: First 80 chars?
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- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 00:48:37 GMT
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- Hi all,
-
- I've been designing a GUI interface for a piece of software that runs on
- our DEC mini in hypercard. I need to be able to break the contents of
- a field into 80 character lines so that I can send this information to
- fit a field on the mini (which unfortunately does not have word wrap).
- Is there some way I can do this without having to count the number of
- characters in words and adding them up and so on and so forth? Isn't
- there something that allows me to write the equivalent of :
-
- put the first 80 chars of cd fld "xxxyyyzzz" into <a container> ?
-
- Or can I? I typed in the above (without the ?) and got a very computer
- like response of "Can't understand this."
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- Help!? Anyone?
-
- Thanks in advance.
- Frank.
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