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Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

Title:*OLD* ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference
Notice:Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1
Moderator:IOSG::PYE
Created:Thu Jan 30 1992
Last Modified:Tue Jan 23 1996
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4343
Total number of notes:18308

2683.0. "limitation of symbol values?" by AIMTEC::PERREAULT_K () Fri May 07 1993 22:25

    Hi,
    
    I have a customer who said he needs to know how many 
    characters can be in the permanent and temporary symbol value, 
    not symbol name. 
    
    We looked at a .pst and saw that the maximum record size in a .pst 
    is 256 bytes. So if a record contains the symbol name and the symbol
    value then the two together can only equal 256. Is that right?
    
    What about the temporary symbol values? 
    
    Any ideas?
    
    Thanks,
    Kathy
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2683.1226AIMTEC::VOLLER_IGordon (T) Gopher for PresidentFri May 07 1993 23:447
    Kathy,
    
    	Yes, the maximum symbol length is 256 - 30 = 226 characters.
    
    Cheers,
    
    Iain.
2683.2Temporary much longer...IOSG::PYEGraham - ALL-IN-1 Sorcerer's ApprenticeTue May 11 1993 19:117
    The size of temporary symbols is much longer. Something like 1024 or
    more.
    
    They could easily find out with a simple loop sticking characters on
    the end until they got an error, or the symbol stopped changing.
    
    Graham