Re: PCtips

[jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

Robert Holmgren wrote:

> ** Reply to note from jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxxx on Thu, 01 Feb 2001 20:56:38
> -0800
>
> > A search in the corresponding XYWWWEB.U2 file also finds
> > DELTAGS, although for some unknown reason I run into a "Cannot Continue
> > Scrolling" error and ditto an "Item Not Found" error from EDITOR, when I
> > try to ascertain its exact position in the file.
>
> You executed a search, it couldn't find the target search $tring, so
> it toggled unbidden into Page-Line mode (unless it was there already,
> which is a bad place to be with a file having more than the allowable
> number of Page Elements -- eight hundred something, I think -- U2 has
> thousands and thousands of PEs). This is a genuine bug in Xy4-DOS,
> although I think I've seen it in other versions as well. There are
> two main solutions: 1) toggle manually into expanded mode and try
> again -- it won't repeat that misbehavior; 2) use the alternate SEarch
> program in U2, which doesn't have this bug -- i.e. when you launch a
> SEarch, just hit  instead of .
>

I see. Given that quantity of page elements, my notion of directing her to
pg. xx - line yy as an alternate means of seeing the item was a non-starter,
anyway.

Jordan