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Terry Reese <[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 19:45:30 -0400
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9999 bytes (not characters) per field
99999 bytes (not characters) per record
999 total fields 

Due to the directory, leader, and coding -- you actually have ~88,000 bytes per record as the directory at that size, eats a lot of bytes.

--tr

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From: MarcEdit support in technical and instructional matters <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Lisa Hatt
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2021 5:11 PM
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Subject: Re: [MARCEDIT-L] Merge contents of duplicated field?

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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