Subj : Slmr.Doc
To   : Tom Laermans
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Tue Aug 15 2000 09:40 am

Hi Tom.

26-Jul-00 00:08:28, Tom Laermans wrote to Jasen Betts


 TL> Hi Jasen ...

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

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

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

even if they do you're still limited to memory, and whatever the compiler's
librarys stop at (usually 64K or 4gig)

 JB>> most stop somewhere before 2^64 characters, I've seen one that

 TL> That's pretty unlimited to me ;-)

You'd need a 64 bit CPU and enough memory.

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

It was an old casio hand-held computer thing.

 -=> Bye <=-

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