Re: RDI 9.5.0.2 cannot display Large variable like Green Screen... <shock>

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 1/7/2016 1:26 PM, Ken Killian wrote:

Yup, I had to "SCAN" those 72000 characters... <frown>

And I should have said "Close to the end", not the "very end"... <grin>

Ouch. Thanks for sharing that, I appreciate your time. Eyeballing
72000 characters - I don't think that's a skill I could ever master.
I...my eyes just can't go through that much stuff without my attention
wandering.

Well, 72000 characters amounts to 900 lines at 80 characters per line.
Which isn't insurmountable. You know there are folks who will manually
scroll through source code longer than that. And goodness knows people
work with spreadsheets that have a hell of a lot more than 900 rows.

But yes, source code and spreadsheets tend to have some degree of
organization, whereas it sounds like Ken's 72000 characters are just a
blob (maybe literally a BLOB?). In any case, it's well above what I
feel any human should really be doing manually, at least on a regular
basis.

Your log-to-a-persistent-file approach is a completely sound standard
workflow, for the reasons you mentioned. And you can still eyeball the
log if you really, really want to or need to.

John Y.