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Re: up-arrow key

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From: Benjamin D. Sommer
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
>>
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>> Evanston, IL 60208-4050
>>
>
>
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