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[James Hale]

Having forgotten the User Guide reference I had come across this limit myself and thought it was a bug (13058). 	
Seems this limit will not be present in LC 7
James
> This is a limitation of the 6.x (and earlier!) engines - offsets for the field are limited to 16 bits.
> 
> In the process of re-writing some of the field internals for LiveCode 7, these got converted to 32-bit offsets. There is still a limit but it will be at 2.1 billion codeunits or thereabouts.
> 
> Because of the very extensive changes required, it won't be possible to
> back-port this fix to LiveCode 6.x