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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 880.1 | Don't know of any solution | SHALOT::WARFORD | Richard Warford @OPA DTN 393-7495 | Wed Jun 17 1992 12:25 | 5 |
| It's a restriction on the ASCII DSAB which is reading the file during
conversion. (I haven't checked the WPS-PLUS DSAB to see what its limit
is).
Rick
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| 880.2 | | IOSG::WDAVIES | There can only be one ALL-IN-1 Mail | Wed Jun 17 1992 15:38 | 11 |
| Hi Clive,
How about creating an ASCII document and then at VMS level renaming
thebig record to filename ?
Mind you I don't think that will do much good - you won't be able to
read it I shouldn't think.
WPS+ is 2048 I believe.
Winton
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| 880.3 | Would VMS Convert help? | HOTAIR::MADDOX | Politicians say the darnedest things | Wed Jun 17 1992 19:52 | 4 |
| Can you create an FDL with 512 char. records defined and then use the VMS
Convert utility to create a readable ASCII file?
Joe
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| 880.4 | Editor and Text Dataset limits | IOSG::NEWLAND | Richard Newland, IOSG, REO1-D/4A | Thu Jun 18 1992 15:01 | 51 |
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> Is there any way to transfer, in its entirety, a text file with lines
> bigger than 512 characters long into ALL-IN-1 ?
It depends on exactly what you mean by 'transfer into ALL-IN-1'. You can
store a file of any format in the ALL-IN-1 file cabinet as a FOREIGN format
using DT RVC.
> If you use Gold Get or DT RV, the result is that lines longer than 512
> characters are stripped out altogether.
If you are using GOLD Get then you are using an editor and will also be
subject to any restrictions the editor might impose. The maximum width of
a WPS-PLUS ruler is 256 characters, but I haven't tested what affect this
has when gold-getting files with longer lines. EDT/DPE has a maximum line
length of 255. I'm not sure what the TPU limit is but I tried about 950
characters and it worked.
When you do a GOLD-GET from an integrated ALL-IN-1 editor the file will be
read through the ALL-IN-1 text dataset mechanism so that if necessary it
can be converted into the format required by the editor. The ALL-IN-1 text
dataset has a maximum record length of 512 characters.
With EDT/DPE and TPU you can also include text files directly, which
bypasses the ALL-IN-1 text dataset mechanism. Using this you could use the
editor TPU and include a text file with lines longer than 512 characters.
DT RV will by default create a document in the format used by your default
editor. Therefore again you may be subject to editor limits as described
above.
> If you $convert/doc the .txt file to .dx and get the .dx file into
> ALL-IN-1, it doesn't strip the lines out but it does truncate them to
> 512 characters and adds a load of control blocks which doesn't help.
The DX format also has it's own line length limit. This appears to be 512
characters. It's probable that the truncation of long lines was done when
the DX file was created. Since the 512 character lines from the DX file
don't exceed the 512 character text dataset limit the DX file was read
through the text dataset mechanism without lines being discarded.
> Is a 1 block buffer (512 bytes) used by DT RV and Gold Get or is it
> simply a restriction of the WPS-PLUS editor ?
Each file format, internal format and editor has it's own limit.
Richard
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