TMG-L Archives

Archiver > TMG > 2004-12 > 1102110761


From: Lee Hoffman <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Re: [TMG(4.0d) ]Exhibit text files ( FILE.TXT) sentence length
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 16:52:41 -0500
References: <5.1.1.6.2.20041203095136.01afd120@mail.umich.edu><148.391453b5.2ee1bd4e@aol.com><5.1.1.6.2.20041203095136.01afd120@mail.umich.edu><5.1.1.6.2.20041203134346.01b1db70@mail.umich.edu>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.2.20041203134346.01b1db70@mail.umich.edu>


David S. Flower wrote:
>Hi Lee,
>
> I checked in the TMG editor and the sentence has the full length but
> some where it gets truncated at 254 characters between TMG(4.0d) and MSW(2000).
>
> I'm using the Journal (Narrative) report and the .txt file is attached
> to the person (not a tag).
>
>When I open the file in MSW (2000) the text is already there so I thought
>that somehow TMG is specifying the line length of the text file that goes
>into the report for MSW. I then have to use links to get the picture.jpg
>file into the document

Oh, okay, you have it attached as an Exhibit. Still that should not be a
problem. So I tried it. I attached an existing 156K text file as an
External Exhibit and ran an Individual Narrative in TMG v4.0D to screen. I
did experience a truncation at about 114K. Just to check, I then created a
114K text file the consisted on that truncated text of the 156K file and
tried it again. The report again produced the same results as expected.

Finally I tried the 156KB external text file Exhibit again to the
Individual Narrative but sending the report to my word processor. This
time, the exhibit and the full report came out as expected without any
problems.

Again let me emphasize that the only truncation in TMG v4x was when the
report was sent to the screen. Sending the report to the word processor
gave excellent results. On the other hand, testing in TMG v5.15.000 gave
no problem either to screen or to word processor. Why the truncation to
the screen occurs in v4x I don't know. That may or may not be a system
problem. In any case, I suspect that the response from Wholly Genes will
be that it works in the current version and they will not be upgrading v4x
anymore.

So while I can confirm some truncation in v4x, all I can suggest is to
upgrade to v5x.

Lee Hoffman/KY
TMG Tips: <http://www.tmgtips.com>;
My website: <http://www.tmgtips.com/lhoffman>;
A user of the best genealogy program, The Master Genealogist (TMG)

This thread: