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From: Dick Cleaveland <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Lenght of fields
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 13:38:05 -0400
In-Reply-To: <7e.9ce3440.26e2792a@cs.com>



>At 11:39 AM 9/2/00, said:
>Is there a limit to the field length for the various source elements? In
>PRESENT OWNER, I am trying to put "Original received from Betty Ghee.
>Original in possession of author." It won't let me get past the period. Yet
>on FILE NUMBER, I seem to have almost an unlimited amount of space.
>Teresa

In general if you have a question about a field length you might consider
downloading the document "File Structures for The Master Genealogist (TMG)
for DOS and Windows." This is located at
http://www.whollygenes.com/html/files.htm#documents and what you download
will be an RTF document suitable for use with Word or Word Perfect, for
instance.

However, I found no mention of the particular fields you cited, and a quick
check of the document against reality (using FoxPro) suggests that it
hasn't been updated for version 4.0a.

Dick

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