On 03/04/18 12:45, Rik van Kekem wrote:
From the code-snippet from Anthony you can see it's really easy to use.
1000 lines of about average 70 characters per lines would
be72*1000=70MB.
72 kB, not MB. Big enough to give some very old systems problems if they
used a Windows component as an editor, but these days trivial.
Historically, things like "text" and "file of string[80]" have been
fraught because of OS-specific interpretations of what a line of text
was. These days there are still ambiguities because of UTF-8 etc.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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