About the backscroll bug in Quill
Ive never had the problem with Abacus, only Quill (which I
forgot to mention).
I could have thrown the QL out of the window because of this bug.
This was 20 years during my studies. My workaround was to edit my
texts in an editor and use Quill only for
David McCann writes:
Per Witte wrote:If there were just a known address to jump to when this
happens then one could at least rescue ones work!
You *can* rescue your text, if you have MORE and MEM from the DIY
toolkit. The steps are:
1. Use SEARCH_MEMORY to find a string from your document.
I fell foul of it today again, after a good half hour's work ;o(( In every
version of XChange Ive had there is a bug that makes it hang when I scroll
up a file of more than one page, after editing. It usually never happens
when I try to trigger it deliberately, of course. Ive tried tracing
I think the bug you are describing ALWAYS occurred in Abacus ... but,
did not seem to occur with PC-Abacus ... I also don't recall it occurring
with the QXL, so I think it is actually a clock cycle problem (for want
of a better/proper description) in the QL-or-68008.
The work-around that I used
Per Witte wrote:
I fell foul of it today again, after a good half hour's work ;o(( In
every
version of XChange Ive had there is a bug that makes it hang when I
scroll
up a file of more than one page, after editing. It usually never
happens
when I try to trigger it deliberately, of course.
Dilwyn Jones writes,
I fell foul of it today again, after a good half hour's work ;o(( In
Assuming you are referring to Xchange Quill, this also occurs in
Silly me! Of course I meant Quill.
standard Quill and it has happened to me so many times I now routinely
save before attempting to
