Didn't happen to have white stripes and go by the name of Freddie did
it?
Could explain explain the resurgence ;)
Alan
On 25/05/2010, at 10:35 AM, Scott Prentice wrote:
Hi Jenny...
This brings up my memory of "the evil dot." Back in 1995 or 6(?) (FM
4 or 5) I ran into a file that exhibited similar strange behavior. I
could search (forward) for a word that I knew was in the file, and
it would never find it. But, if I searched backwards it found the
word without trouble. Spell checking had similar issues. I found
that if the cursor was after a certain point in the file, the word
could be found. After a bit of thrashing about, I discovered that
the culprit was a period (the evil dot). If I deleted this period
everything worked fine.
What was happening is that the period was like a black hole that
caused any processing to return to the beginning of the file. I
could copy this character into any other file and the same thing
would happen .. but if I saved the file to MIF, there was nothing
apparently special about it .. just a simple period.
I saved the period off in a file for later use (don't ask) .. but
somewhere along the way it was lost (maybe it found its way to your
file).
I suppose it's possible that you have a similar situation .. see if
you also can't search for this misspelling .. and see how far away
from the word you can move the cursor and have it still found. Try
searching backwards. Who knows.
I've not seen this behavior again in FM, so I don't think it's a
serious problem, but maybe it's making a resurgence. Or maybe this
is a totally different problem.
Cheers,
...scott
Scott Prentice
Leximation, Inc.
www.leximation.com
+1.415.485.1892
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Alan T Litchfield
AlphaByte
PO Box 141, Auckland, 1140
New Zealand
http://www.alphabyte.co.nz
http://www.alphabyte.co.nz/beatrice
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