Subj : Slmr.Doc
To   : Tom Laermans
From : Charles Angelich
Date : Fri Jul 14 2000 08:37 am

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Hello Tom -

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JB>> true... the tricky bit is getting the data into the dat files
JB>> with all the fields in the right place and the indexes working,
JB>> without having it die horribly where it encounters really long
JB>> messages

TL> Hmm. Basic supports unlimited-length-strings, right? so no
TL> problem?

Generally speaking, no BASIC does _not_ allow unlimited length strings.

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.... Composed for you - on an 6/12mhz `286 with 1meg using DOS 16bit telnet.

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