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Article #2231Re: up-arrow key
From: Benjamin D. Sommer
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 00:00
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 00:00
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Thanks. Does anyone know if somethign can be done about this, or is it simply inevitable? >Hi Ben > >It might be because the TEXT program empties the memory in order to do its >sort working. > >Best, > >Alan Segal >Barnard College, Columbia University > >On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Benjamin D. Sommer wrote: > >> One of the great features of NB is the use of the up-arrow to scroll through >> previous commands given in the command line or previous texts searched for >> using F4. Unfortunately, I find that this feature often stops working. That >> is, when I hit, say, F9 and then up arrow, very often nothing shows up, even >> though I have given previous commands. This never takes place at the >> beginning of a sesssion, but once I've been on for a while and I've used a >> few features (like CCAT-texts or Ibid) the problem does occur. Once up arrow >> stops working, it doesn't work for the rest of that session. I am using 4.5 >> on a 486 machine with 8 mb of RAM. Does anyone know what might be causing > this? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Ben Sommer >> >> ******************************************************************* >> Department of Religion b-sommer@nwu.edu >> Northwestern University 847-491-2620 >> 1940 Sheridan Road fax: 847-467-2062 >> Evanston, IL 60208-4050 >> > >
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