Field limit?

[Shari]

The reason it was all on one line was because the entire text was a 
very long list of items.  As each item was a single word, I used 
words instead, and now it is readable.

Regarding the limit of a field:  Apparently it reached the limit of 
the field, and when it did that, Metacard just froze.  No 
explanation.  (Took a lot of trial and error to figure this one out.)

In the end I broke it into 5 fields, and was able to embed the info 
into Metacard this way.  On opening the card, I just create a global, 
put the contents of each field after the global, and it loads 
instantly.  The several minute loading time for it to read the info 
from a file, mess around with the info, and put it into the global, 
is now seconds.

It's a good thing I don't need the user to see the data in the field, 
as it only shows part of the data, even though it is all there.  If I 
scroll to the end of the field, it looks as if the data is cut short. 
But if I type into the message box "answer the last word of cd fld 
someField" then it shows the last word as being there.

PS - You guys are nifty!  Very very helpful list, this one.

Shari C
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