Kevin; You are correct. It could be done pretty generically, and this sounds like it could be a great little project if someone wants to jump in and help. And if I find myself with extra time on my hands I might just do it. Right now we kind of have our hands full.
But we will see. Best wishes; Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Toppenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 1:38 PM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Grrrr!!! FTG^%ZISH looses data for strings>255 characters > Comment below... > > --- Chris Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ...or use fixed length reads, concatonate them into > > a buffer and $PIECE them > > off (separator by space) into convenient lengths for > > storage or display. > > Most of the M engines out there can handle 510 > > character strings, so 250 > > character fixed reads (READ X#250) will do well for > > input. Process down the > > BUFFER you are extracting until the length of the > > BUFFER gets shorter than 2 > > times the length of the output you want, refill the > > buffer with fixed reads > > until you get an X returned that is not 250 > > characters in length. > > > > This is pretty easy stuff for MUMPS. > > Easy enough that Kernal could do this automatically, > and not make me reinvent the wheel? > > Kevin > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Maury Pepper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net> > > Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 8:36 AM > > Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Grrrr!!! FTG^%ZISH > > looses data for > > strings>255 characters > > > > > > awk! > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Kevin Toppenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Hardhats Sourceforge" > > <hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net> > > Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 10:24 AM > > Subject: [Hardhats-members] Grrrr!!! FTG^%ZISH > > looses data for strings>255 > > characters > > > > > > > OK, I'm frustrated. > > > > > > My transcriptionists are using a wordprocessors > > that > > > automatically wrap lines. Thus a paragraph is > > stored > > > in a text file as one long line. This is often > > longer > > > than 255 characters. I was under the impression > > that > > > FTG^%ZISH was aware of this limitation and would > > wrap > > > the line when uploading strings. > > > > > > It doesn't. > > > > > > This means that I now have many progress notes > > that > > > have been erroneously truncated. > > > > > > Any thoughts? > > > > > > Kevin > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > > Do you Yahoo!? > > > Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. 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