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Re: mdnm redividus

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From: J. P. Earls
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 00:00
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Sounds like the right arrow is actually an end-of-file mark.  If you can
delete it, do so.  If the rest of the file doesn't reappear, look at it
with a hex reader (I'm sure Norton provides one).  The EOF sign looks
like Greek capital phi.

--J. P. Earls, OSB

Thomas F. Mayer 7462 wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I've been off the list for a while, and I guess I'm paying for my
> truancy.  Anyway, this AM after several hours of performing and
> recording complicated computations in an NB file, I discovered that a
> MDNM command had slipped its final command bracket which had instead
> become a right arrow.  All the text beyond that point does not come
> up on screen no matter what I've tried.  The file on disk is just
> fine (I checked w/ Norton Utilities).  Any ideas?  For the record, NB
> was performing all manner of weird stunts at about the same time,
> including locking up, and when I reset, quit, and saved files as
> *.tmp, one of them also refused to come up, no matter how I called
> it, and instead caused NB to freeze again.
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Tom Mayer
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