Are you sure that you haven't been snagged by the one-off count? Since
the engine is written in C, byte offsets are computed from a 0 base. i
[252] is the 253rd byte.

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 02:36, Ivan Prenosil wrote:
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> I wonder why everybody say the limit is 253, when it is
> in fact 252 (try it yourself).
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> To verify keysize, you can play with this Index key size calculator:
> http://www.volny.cz/iprenosil/interbase/ip_ib_indexcalculator.htm
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> Ivan
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