[ic] More problems with Spreadsheet Export

Jason Kohles interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Fri Dec 21 10:52:01 2001


On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 11:09:54AM -0000, Jonathan Clark wrote:
> Mike Heins wrote:
> >
> > This is true of Excel '95, but not of '97 and above. I have actually
> > tested spreadsheet import and export of text fields greater than
> > 256 characters on Excel 2000 and '97.
> >
> 
> Is this a case of the dbm type database field limitation of 256 chars then?
> 
The only dbm implementation I am aware of that has a limit is SDBM on Solaris,
and while the limit is small enough to be annoying, it's larger than 256
(although I don't remember off-hand what the limit is)...

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