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From: "David S. Flower" <>
Subject: Re: lines truncated at 254 characters in .TXT file
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 14:46:24 -0500
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Hi Lee,

I'm still having the lines of a .TXT file truncated at 254 characters,
including spaces.
The file is attached as an exhibit in the Descendants Narrative report in
TMG (4.0d), the Journal report in TMG (5.15) and Individual Narrative
Report in (5.15) to an Obituary Tag.

It works fine in the Individual Narrative report in TMG (4.0d).

I generate all of the report using the same person.

I've looked high and low for a line length limit for transfer from TMG to
MSW without results. Could you give me a clew as to where I might look?

I also sent an email to Wholly Genes support today.

At 04:52 PM 12/03/2004, you wrote:
>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
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