Date:         Thu, 19 Jun 2003 15:12:16 -0400
Reply-To:     Jay Weedon <jweedon@EARTHLINK.NET>
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From:         Jay Weedon <jweedon@EARTHLINK.NET>
Organization: http://extra.newsguy.com
Subject:      Re: SYMBOL statement: WARNING: Quoted string is too long.  It
              will be truncated
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On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 16:21:53 -0400, Jay Weedon <jweedon@earthlink.net>
wrote:

>Clarification: I'm trying to specify
>
>value="age100 .8"
>
>I can specify "age1 .8" with no problem but as soon as I add an extra
>character to "age10 .8" I get the message
>
>symbol4 color=black font=swissb value="age10 .60";
>WARNING: Quoted string is too long.  It will be truncated.

FYI, I finally contacted tech support, who told me:

"There is an 8 character limit for the text value specified for the
VALUE option on a SYMBOL statement. If you require a text string
with more characters, try specifying an Annotate data set to
generate the longer text strings."

JW