Subj : Slmr.Doc
To   : Jasen Betts
From : Tom Laermans
Date : Tue Jul 25 2000 05:08 pm

Hi Jasen ...

At 21-Jul-00 11:21:01, Jasen Betts wrote to Tom Laermans about Slmr.Doc...

 JB> Both the dos versions I have limit you to 64K (or less) total
 JB> strings.
I have Turbo Basic, QuickBasic, QBasic, BasicA ... And of any of them, I
have NO idea what length they support ;-)

 JB> Realistically, no version of basic supports unlimited strings,
None use C-Style ASCIIZ?

 JB> most stop somewhere before 2^64 characters, I've seen one that
That's pretty unlimited to me ;-)

 JB> limited you to 8 chrarcters... :)
Ouch :-) Not even enough to hold a filename :)

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