[comp.binaries.mac] Macintosh Technical Notes - 237 TextEdit Record Size Limitations

bytebug@dhw68k.cts.com (Roger L. Long) (06/29/89)

[Macintosh Technical Notes - 237 TextEdit Record Size Limitations Revisited]

Written by:  Mary Walsh					       June 1989

This Technical Note describes another limit on the length of a  TextEdit
record that was previously undocumented.

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