Meanwhile, I downloaded the trial version, and to have something to start with, tried to import some material into a topic. The import of a larger text file (MS Word 2002, RTF) causes an error message: "1 files were not inserted, because they exceeded maximum allowed size of 3,9 MB per embedded...

Sorry to ask a dumb question: but can you define what you mean with "hoisting"? I assume you do not want MI to include a hoisting device for lifting heavy books, do you?

But let me add that 54 books with 300 to 1,300 pages each, from pdf, that asks for doubly commenting: That's tremendous, old AS versions seems really stable as long as they only contain text, but what MB size are we speaking about? Let's say 50 books x 800 pages x 3,000 characters = 120 MB, right? ...

Hi Felix, thanks a lot for the kind words! In fact, my use of AS had been focussed on a) full text databases: For a research on the compensation for the expropriation during the Nazi regime I imported the complete findings and reports of an Austrian commission of historians (54 books with 300 to 1,3...

Every now and then, with increasing hopelessness during the last six to ten months, I scanned the AskSam site and "support forum" for recent information on a new version, or only a sign of life of that great software I am using since the DOS days. AS has accompanied me since my student tim...