>Jeff writes:
>New to programming on the HP3000. Ran into limitations recently on the use
>of FORMSPEC - seems the file szie can not exceed 32767 as I get a run time
>error - integer overflow in FORMSPEC. Upon further investigation tried to
>determine how many records were required to be added for a screen and
>noted where it can waste space - appears that for each item - the item
>number dictates the minimum number of records - that is if I were to copy
>some screens then delete and add my own items - the item number will
>sequentially grow to a max of 256 - so it is possible to end up with only
>one field on it numbered 256 and you can add no more fields - so
>potentially the limit of 128 fields may not be reachable - anybody else
>come across these limits and have work arounds etc. I have determined
>there appears to be no clean utilities for formspec files but I could
>rebuild the file and modify screens (item numbering ) to save space.
 
 
I would suggest the following which should help address your concerns:
 
1. use fast forms files. do not compile into the existing source forms file.
2. run formspec offline (run formspec.pub.sys;info="$stdin") and use the
renumber command to reseq your field numbers starting from 1. you do this
form by form.
3. copy forms into a fresh forms source file.
 
 
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