[ic] XLS import failure - 255 character limit issue.

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Reid Sutherland)]

Hi,

I've having an issue where I'm trying to import an Excel 97+ spreadsheet 
  into IC.  The problem is that IC takes a violent fit when the 
description/comment field is over 255 characters.  It will start to push 
MySQL errors.  Now I'm from me looking at the 
UI/usertags/import_fields.tag, I don't see anything that would cause any 
fields to be truncated/filled with upper ASCII chars by IC.  But then 
again the code is very well written, making it painful for me to read :)

Now I've tested my install of Spreadsheet::ParseExcel and it reads the 
long descriptions fine.  I'm not sure what else I can do to aid in this 
matter.

Any ideas?

-reid