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On 8/31/13, Squeak List <squeaklist at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have an OrderedCollection with 24,576 elements.
>
> A bunch of musical notes basically: each of the 24,576 elements is like:
>
> #('eo6' 0.25 500)
>
> for example.
>
>
> Goal: I would like to turn that *entire* OrderedCollection into a single
> MIDI file.
>
>
> However, there seems to be some sort of size limitation that I do not see
> how to get around.
>
> 1) Even before getting to the MIDI part, I tried:
>
> FileStream fileNamed: '1-24576.rtf'
> do: [:stream | stream nextPutAll: ((oc copyFrom: 1 to:24576) asString)].
>
> which creates a nice file of 48.8KB size.
> And opening the file, it ends with:
>
> #('c#o6' 0.25 500) #('d...etc...
> which is not what I expected.
>
> 2) If I do:
>
> FileStream fileNamed: '1-2729.rtf'
> do: [:stream | stream nextPutAll: ((oc copyFrom: 1 to:2729) asString)].
>
> it works fine: ending tidily with the expected:
> #('c#o6' 0.25 500))
>
> 3) But,
>
> FileStream fileNamed: '1-2730.rtf'
> do: [:stream | stream nextPutAll: ((oc copyFrom: 1 to:2730) asString)].
>
> is where this starts:
>
> #('c#o6' 0.25 500) #('d...etc...
>
>
> This exact same problem happens when making MIDI files: there seems to be a
> size limitation around 48.8KB.
>
> Aside from MIDI, is FileStream just the wrong class to use for anything
> larger than creating a 48.8kb text file (.txt or .rtf)? Or how can I get
> around this restriction?
>
> Any suggestions are most welcome.
>
>
> Thanks,
> ken
>
> Windows 7 - 64 bit
>
>
> Squeak4.4
> latest update: #12319
> Current Change Set: Unnamed
> Image format 6505 (32 bit)
>
> Squeak.exe
> Croquet Closure Cog VM [CoInterpreter VMMaker.oscog-eem.331]
> Win32 built on Aug 22 2013 10:20:54 Compiler: 3.4.4 (cygming special, gdc
> 0.12, using dmd 0.125)
> platform sources revision VM: r2776