Re: INSERTing string longer the 256 bytes

Steven Frank wrote: > Carlos, > > Just because *you* haven't had to do this, that doesn't mean others haven't, > and it certainly doesn't mean this isn't the design failure that it is. > > I currently have a total kludge work-around, that works-barely, but is not > satisfactory in the long term. > > I also don't see how the OS would effect the situation, although I guess > thats why I posted the question. Right. That was the point. Not that nobody else was trying to do that, or even whether it was or wan't a design flaw, just the conclusion you came to before having all the info. I was reminded of the time a customer ripped me apart (I'm sew sew now) for our 'broken software' because everyone of the month end reports his business depended on failed to run. A little investigation showed that he had taken it upon himself to severely curtail the ulimit so his employees wouldn't make or download huge files on his hard drives. carlos