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Subject: Re: prob defining type
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Jan 92 13:43:50 PST."
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Date: Wed, 08 Jan 92 15:06:44 PST


you write:
>
> Go 
> *  define type humongous
> (input = lo_filein, output=lo_fileout, internallength = -1) \g
> 
> Query sent to backend is "define type humongous (input = lo_filein, output=lo
 +_fileout, internallength = -1) "
> WARN:Jan  8 14:01:28:Define: non-positive lengths disallowed
> 
> was this supposed to work?
> 
> thanx in advance,

If you say internallength = 64, it should work for pathnames up to 60 or 56
characters long.  The type is actually variable length.  A 
unix-file-system-like interface to large objects will hopefully be in the 
next release.

	--Case Larsen