The same problem occurs with .chk files that exceed a certain size.

Currently I need to split .qes and .chk files in several parts and connect them with RELATE. For our long questionnaires, this is only in some cases due to the 999 lines limitation for the .qes file, but even if the questionnaire fits 999 lines, I need to split the .qes and .chk files because of the fact that the .chk files get truncated at their maximum size.

Is it possible to improve EpiData on this point? EpiData is such a useful program for our surveys in the field. It would be really be a great improvement if this limitation was not there!

Thanks a lot!

Dr Henrica A.F.M. (Henriette) Jansen Epidemiologist, WHO Multi-country Study Violence against Women Department of Gender, Women and Health

Tel direct: +41 22 791 3106 Fax direct: +41 22 791 1585 Mobile: +41 78 730 3035 E-mail: jansenh@who.int Website: http://www.who.int/gender/violence/multicountry/en/

-----Original Message----- From: epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca [mailto:epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca] Sent: 17 May 2006 20:06 To: epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca Subject: [EpiData-list] size of EpiData note files

Unfortunately, if the size of the .not-files into which user-notes and EpiData generated notes are written exceeds about 64k, the coders can't enter further comments (although notes generated "automatically" via .chk-file commands will still be added).

One solution to this problem is to close EpiData and to rename the .not-file. A new start of EpiData will then generate a new .not-file automatically.

However, this solution is error prone, risky, and tedious: - you have to keep track of the size of the .not-files so that the coders can always enter their comments; - you may not overwrite renamed .not-files accidentally; - you have take care to collect/archive *all* renamed .not-files; - the solution is difficult to implement if the coders work independly and should not change files directly by themselves.

Question: Is there any other solution? Is it possible to improve EpiData such that longer .not-files are possible?

Current EpiData version: 3.1 (120306)

[Sorry for any inconvience: I send this mail a second time because the first went not through - my email-address has changed and I was not recognized as a "member" of the list]

Dirk

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