Re: Holes in dfl files

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Harry Binswanger wrote:
> When you originally posted on this I did
> the SEarch and found several offending "holes" in settings.dfl.
Yes, I discovered it by chance. Had a system that,
though ancient (P1 MMX 140 or so) and running W98
Initial release, was acting like XP as far as jerky
keyboard action was concerned: I'd hit my BC key (F5),
start typing what was intended as a command, and find
it in the text of my doc, because my cursor was still
in text for an appreciable number of seconds. Or vice
versa. One day I was making a change to Settings.dfl
and happened to spot a "hole." So I searched for
others, found a few dozen (I think the keyboard lag had
contributed: every time I edited settings.dfl, a couple
of Enter keystrokes were made in the text that were
intended for the Command Line), cleaned them out, and
the keyboard resumed its normal behavior. Since then I
do periodic checks--esp. given my lousy typing.

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Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx