Thanks for the rescue. will paste it. BTW, one missing thing is "^^"? :)
In einer eMail vom 14.03.00 13:08:23 (MEZ) Mitteleurop�ische Zeit schreibt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
<< Hi Volker,
this problem has been found before, when trying to save
history to files, here's a history save function, that
does it right ...
;
; History save and load by Christoph Mammitzsch
;
save-history: func [
"Saves system/console/history to file."
file [ file! ] "the file to save to"
/local history line subst
][
history: copy system/console/history
forall history [
line: mold first history
if equal? first line #"{" [
line: change line #"^""
forall line [
subst: select [
#"^"" "^^^""
#"^/" "^^/"
;There must be more. I'm sure I forgot something :)
] first line
if not none? subst [
remove line
line: back insert line subst
]
]
change back line #"^""
line: head line
]
change/only history line
]
history: head history
write file history
exit
]
load-history: func [
"Restores system/console/history from file."
file [ file! ] "the file to load from"
/local history
][
system/console/history: load file
exit
]
I hope this helps,
Ingo
Those were the words of [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> my little email-database is crashed.
> Caused by some emails which contained
> unpaired "{".
>>
Volker
