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[J. Landman Gay]

On 2/23/04 10:41 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

>> Scott Raney used to recommend that stacks not go above
> 
>  > 3-5,000 cards or so before being moved to a more formal
>  > database. That isn't a hard number, just a suggestion.
> 
> That's predicated on the assumption that you're using a stack as a flat 
> table.  If you use arrays or tab-delimited chunks in custom properties 
> you can safely exceed that by many times;

Can you do a search and/or find with that system? For imported HC 
database stacks, that's usually the show stopper. If you have a method 
for searching, I could sure use it myself. Do you iterate through all 
the properties/text chunks? Is that fast enough?

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