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Cautionary report about MINITRUE (loss of data!)

** Reply to note from Nota Bene List      Sun, 15 Nov 1998 17:48:33 -0400

The following msg was posted on the NB maillist recently. For your information...


> Date:     Sun, 15 Nov 1998 17:48:33 -0400
> From: "M.W. Poirier" 
> Subject:   Re: MINITRUE...
> To: Multiple recipients of list NOTABENE 
> 
>   A few days back there was some discussion of the programme
>   MINITRUE. I would advise caution when using this file on
>   NB files. Make a backup copy first. I've just experienced
>   a loss of approximately 20K of a large file as a result of
>   using this search programme. Fortunately, I had backed up
>   my files. To test it, after copying my backup to the direc-
>   tory on my C drive, I tried it a second time, and the same
>   thing happened. Be careful.
>
>   M.W. Poirier



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Robert Holmgren
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