On 12/16/01 4:15 PM, "Allen Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Just one quick thought: I had lots of long <memos> in one of the lists, some
> ten or twelve page docs. In fact there was one doc I imported into my Visor
> that resulted in ten memos...because I'd reached the size limit on memos
> over and over again. I almost certainly over-ran the size limit in your
> script...and a text file is probably the way to go.

That might even have hit a different limit in that case: you cannot set a
variable to text greater than 32K bytes (about 30,000 characters: my
guesstimate would be more like 20 pages, but perhaps 10-12 could do it). If
you had any Note whose content was longer than that (?), then it just
wouldn't work. I might be able somehow to set more than one variable, but it
might be awkward. i wouldn't like to truncate it. Even using text files,
you'd have to set a variable to the content of a single record note first.

It's possible that there's a similar limit for lists (total number of bytes
per list) which would obviously have been greatly exceeded. I could find
that out. If that were the case, and as long as the limit isn't the same 32K
bytes, that could be avoided by writing to the file record by record, and
never making a list in the first place. That would require far, far more
osax calls (the 'write' and 'eof' commands) but still probably wouldn't add
appreciably to the time taken: we're not talking about thousands of records
here.


-- 
Paul Berkowitz


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