importing text thru mtext

Hello,
I'm am trying to import some text with an ".RTF" extension thru mtext and it tells me that the file is too large to import as an mtext entity. Maximum size is 16k. A different user gets max. size is 12k. Can this value be increased and how?
We are running Acad2002 (actually Land Desktop).
Thanks

 

That's interesting. While these days many are warning not to use (entmake), I
just pulled up my old DDMTEXT routine and succesfully imported the entirety of a
269Kb LSP file into LDT3 with tracking and other formats that bloat the object.
Using (setq String (vlax-get Object 'TextString)) the (strlen String) was 375459
including all its special formatting code. I then created a new mtext object
and tried (vlax-put Object 'TextString String). The new object accepted only
32000 characters from the original.

So it appears that the ActiveX method has some significant limitations. The
"get" was fine; it was the "put" that was limited.

tells me that the file is too large to import as an mtext entity. Maximum size
is 16k. A different user gets max. size is 12k. Can this value be increased
and how?

 

Yes that is interesting John. Thanks.