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From: eric@batcomputer.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Editing > 32K text blocks
Message-ID: <1783@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Wed, 10-Dec-86 18:04:14 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 10 18:04:14 1986
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Reply-To: eric@batcomputer.UUCP (Eric Fielding)
Organization: Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <164500006@uiucdcsb> liberte@uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
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>How does one support editing of more than 32K text blocks? [...]

Or do anything else with chunks of data larger than 32K?  I am new to Mac
programming, and can't understand why I can't make an array bigger than
32K on my 1024k Mac+? Is this some kind of holdover from the days of 128K Macs
or inherent in the operating system?

				++Eric Fielding
DARPA Internet: eric@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu