Re: Ascii 255, 64k limit, Off the record

[Emery Snyder emery_snyder@xxxxxxxx]

At 11:37 AM 11.11.2000 -0500, Carl wrote:

>-> The 64K limit for defining / moving large blocks of text that
>-> existed in v. 3 is gone in XY-4, correct ?
>
>Correct-a-mundo. You can DeFine entire files -- big ones -- and
>CoPy, MoVe, Delete, etc., the DF block with no problem. I regularly
>do so, which is why I added a DeFine-All command to U2: DFA
>highlights everything in the current window. As an experiment, I
>just opened XY4.HLP, DFA'd it, then (1) CoPied and (2) MoVed this
>2-Megabyte block into another window. No problem.

This doesn't seem to be true in XyWin, though; I frequently run into
problems cutting and pasting texts longer than a few paragraphs to the
Windows clipboard (which doesn't happen in bloatware like MS Word. (running
the latest XyWin on Win95B and 98SE)