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|    Jim Hargan to Tony McGuire    |
|    Re: importing large data fields    |
|    14 Jun 08 22:58:25    |
      From: contact@harganonline.com              On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:58:22 -0600, Tony McGuire wrote:              >> one line at a time. String variables since v7-32 (I think) have no       >> limit on size -- none at all. You can cram /War and Peace/ into a single       >> string       >       > Not exactly correct.       >       > You are limited by the amount of memory available on the machine.       >       > And I wouldn't rely on a Windows Operating System to be able to handle       > W&P. Particularly not in one bite.              VBG. Maybe the original version that Tolstoy serialized in a magazine. It's       a good 500 pages shorter. (I read about it in aldaily.com.)              Can't say I've ever tried to get Pdox to swallow much more than 10,000       words in one bite -- but it handles that like a champ!              Jim Hargan              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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