008D972A Item to be pasted is too large for text field. Explanation: The material that you are trying to paste from the DECwindows Motif clipboard to a text entry field is too large to fit in the text entry field area. User Action: Paste the material to the scrollable area of the DEC DATATRIEVE main application window. Select a portion of the material that will fit into the text field area and copy that to the clipboard. Then, paste the shorter material into the text entry field area.