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Omnis 7

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From: Fred Puhan
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 05:40
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On 7/22/92, Jerry Sy said to All: 

  > 15 character field names
  > 
  > 	Mildly annoying, but not despicable.  Now 8 characters WOULD be
  > despicable.
  > 
  JS> well, that was not really the main point.  You get 15 characters
  JS> for your file name (table name) and 15 characters for your field names,
  JS> 
  JS> BUT you still get 15 characters if you use the table.field method
  JS> of addressing a field!  had they made that 30 characters, it will make
  JS> more sense.  because they didn't, you make have to settel for 7
  JS> character table names and field names then, now that is despicable.


    Version 1.1 (due any day now) does away with the 15-character limit, now
    allowing file and field names up to 255 characters in length...
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From: Fred.Puhan@p4219.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Fred Puhan)
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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 00:40:51 -0500
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