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Article #64Omnis 7
From: Fred Puhan
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 05:40
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) Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!blkcat!Uucp Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases Subject: Omnis 7 Message-ID: <711907403.F00004@blkcat.UUCP> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 00:40:51 -0500 Lines: 20