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Lisa Hatt <[log in to unmask]>
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MarcEdit support in technical and instructional matters <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 10 Aug 2021 14:11:00 -0700
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On 8/10/2021 12:58 PM, McDonald, Stephen wrote:

> To clarify, it is a limit of 9999 characters per record, and 999
> records per field.  Merging the fields won't make the record longer,
> but it might make the merged field too long.

I thought 99999 characters per record, and I don't understand what "999 
records per field" would mean. Should this have read "99999 characters 
per record and 9999 characters per field"?  (Or strictly, octets, which 
could be a smaller number of characters in the case of things like Unicode?)

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Lisa Hatt
Cataloging | De Anza College Library
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