Re: weird limits

[<rivin math temple edu>]

> On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 03:09:41PM -0400, Igor Rivin wrote:
>>
>> I note that gnumeric has kept the wonderful Excel feature of allowing
>> at most 65535 rows in the data. Is this realy true? Is there any way
>> to get around this?
>
> The default build uses those limits for XL compatibility.  Changing them
> is simple, but requires a recompilation.
>
> - edit src/gnumeric.h
> - change SHEET_ROWS_MAX
> - recompile

Thanks! I was a little afraid that something in the code might depend on
the limit, but I will trust you on this. As an amusing(?) aside, I note
that OpenOffice.org has decided that this 65536 business is really
excessive, and allows only 32000 rows...

  Igor