Script accepting large chunks of text from outside

I have a workflow where I create mask/shape outlines outside AE that will be imported into AE by changing the contents of a mask/shape layer. The workflow will be very frequent - the outside component is some kind of editor (developed by myself) - so the workflow has to be fast and unobtrusive: Making the user open some specific file manually, for example, is already too awkward.
Since AE doesn't provide scripting access to the clipboard, my next idea was to have a script present a text box ("EditText") and have him paste an encoded text representation of the outlines which the script then decodes. With the script having a shortcut, that might do that trick.
I was defeated by EditText's limitation of 30000 characters (even less characters are actually displayed, about 5000): Even when I zip-deflate the data and use a javascript zip library to re-inflate, that's not quite enough.
(To give an impression for the sizes: The outlines of the text
Text upon text is what the
wizard wrote, and more so
the more he drove himself
into his texting frenzy.
are almost 50k in size even if zipped. It will vary depending on the font and how exactly you represent the data, but I don't think I can get it much smaller.)
So what other options do I have?
Make my external editor provide the data differently, via local files or the network. (Possible, but scripts need "file and network access" then. I can live with that, but I'd rather not.)
Forget scripting and write an extension. (Maintenance annoyance, especially when I need to support both platforms Windows and Mac. At least I can access the clipboard then.)
Does somebody have more ideas?

Hi again,
I have tried to use only the LWRS_RECEIVE with a limit of 256 bytes, reading it into a buffer of 8192 on a COM callback call.
And also tried using only LWRS_RXFLAG (with the CR char '\r') and Zero in the Notify count field.
I even tried to copy all data from COM directly to a large memory buffer (to avoid slow access to files or screen), with no success.
In all cases the results were the same... I still get missing lines or portions of lines.
What am I doing wrong?
Has anyone ever saw a good terminal example written using CVI (event driven that can work with baud of 38400 and up).
I never seem to get the results of SW terminals such as Symantec ProComm or even Microsoft HyperTerminal.
Is the CVI layer built so high over the Windows API that the system cannot respond as fast?
Gil

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