I know there is a size limit for memos on the Palm OS; I believe it is 32K. So there is probably no problem about overflowing a text variable, in reading any single memo. But in concatenating them...for sure, my memos would overflow that. -- Microsoft MVP for Entourage/OE/Word Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> XNS name: =Allen Watson Applescripts for Outlook Express and Entourage: <http://homepage.mac.com/allenwatson/>
> From: Paul Berkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 17:36:28 -0800 > To: Entourage Mac Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Sync with Palm > > 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 > > > -- > To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To search the archives: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
