Re: 256-column limit

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Jody Goldberg wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:42:40AM -0400, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> > I've googled on the 256-col limit in gnumeric, and saw a 2002 posting
> > from Jody, saying the only changes need to expand this were the
> > #defines for
> >
> > SHEET_MAX_COLS ...

> > I'd just like to check: is that still applicable as of 1.2.8?
>
> Somewhat, you no longer need to change the TILE_* :-)

Great.

> > One other point in this area.  I've recently been working with a large
> > CSV file, and at first I didn't notice that it had been truncated by
> > gnumeric, since this was done silently.  When I tried opening the same
> > CSV file in Excel I got a warning saying it had not been completely
> > loaded.  Such a warning seems quite important!
>
> Good idea, please add an enhancement request to bugzilla

Will do.

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Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University, NC