🚀 go-pugleaf

Thanks to Enrique Lynch and Pieter Botha for their help! Pieter's hint did
the trick. How on earth did the period find its way into the help file?

Johan Thom
University of Stellenbosch

NOW I know why the problem seemed familiar: the "no .FOR files saved"
problem was discussed and a working solution found on this list already
in March 1997. (I did make now some suggestions to Enrique but did not
remember the helpful one.)

Everyone who plans to use a big drive for Ibid(em) datafiles might
encounter the same problem. This is how Tim Moore reported of the
solution and the anatomy of the problem in March 1997:

> Eureka! and thanks.  Your information about the meaning of "se char."
> in the help file (i.e. that it was like "se /char./" on the action
> line) enabled me to make appropriate checks.  The answer is curious. Our
> bibliographic data files are stored on a hard disk which happens to have
> more than one gigabyte of free space.  The result of this is that at the
> bottom of the directory listing on the NB screen, the dot of "char."is
> overwritten by the "1" of at least one gigabyte.  Therefore, "char." is
> not found, and we (misleadingly) get the message "no .FOR file saved". I
> have erased the dot from NBIBID.HLP, and it now works properly.

Well, of course there IS another solution: fill your big drive with junk
files so that the free space is reduced to less than one GB :-)

j-p takala

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Enrique Lynch wrote:
> 
> On  Sat, 11 Apr 1998  Johan Thom wrote:
> 
> > I recently bought a new computer and copied my existing NB 4.5 to the new
> > computer. Until now, everything seemed to work. Today I tried to generate a
> > bibliography using a custom format (.FOR) file. When I get to the point
> > where I have to choose the .FOR file to be used, I get an error message, "No
> > .FOR files saved." There are, however, at least 15 .FOR files in the NB4
> > directory. Does anybody have an idea of what the problem may be? The only
> > serious difference between my new configuration and the previous one that I
> > can think of, is that the new one uses FAT32 instead of FAT16.
> >
> > Johan Thom
> > University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
> 
> I have recently posted a similar problem to the List and received a
> couple of suggestions. Just tested one, by Pieter Botha which I am
> now sharing with you. I am pleased to say it solves the problem
> completely. After following Pieter instructions  Ibid. now merges
> .FOR files normally:
> .....................................................................
> Dear  Enrique Lynch
> 
> I noticed that your problem of  "No FOR files saved" corresponds with
> working on a new machine. Try the following; if it helps I will
> appreciate it if you'll let me know.
> 
> Make a backup copy of the file NBIBID.HLP.
> (this is in the \NB4 directory)
> Open NBIBID.HLP and switch to Expanded Mode (S+F8)
> Search for the string |se  char.|
> (note the double space between "se" and "char.")
> Delete the full stop after "char" and repeat.
> (there should be only two instances).
> Save the file, quit and reload NB.
> ....................................................................
> 
> Furthermore, let me thank again J-P Takala for his help.
> 
> Regards,
> Dr. Enrique Lynch
> Departamento de Historia de la Filosofía, Estética y Filosofía de la Cultura
> Universidad de Barcelona
>