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smcmanus	13 Oct, 2008 - 06:08 PM Post #1
New D.I.C Head Joined: 9 Oct, 2008 Posts: 11	Hi. I am writing code in VB6 to open a text file, write to it, then save it. Is there any limits on the size of this text file? Thank you.
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Martyr2	RE: Maximum Size For Text File 13 Oct, 2008 - 06:40 PM Post #2
Programming Theoretician Joined: 18 Apr, 2007 Posts: 5,199 Thanked: 213 times Expert In: C/C++, Java, VB, VB.NET, C#, PHP, Web Development, HTML & CSS, Javascript My Contributions	Theoretically the only limits are what are imposed by your resources including disk space, and more importantly, time. Keep in mind the more you write to file the more your program will have to take time to do it.
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smcmanus	RE: Maximum Size For Text File 14 Oct, 2008 - 03:41 AM Post #3
New D.I.C Head Joined: 9 Oct, 2008 Posts: 11	QUOTE(Martyr2 @ 13 Oct, 2008 - 07:40 PM) Theoretically the only limits are what are imposed by your resources including disk space, and more importantly, time. Keep in mind the more you write to file the more your program will have to take time to do it. Because I Googled the Maximum size and 45K keep coming up. So 1Meg would not be unreasonable depending obviously on the speed of your program you wanted.
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