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Started by James Ernest
Tue, 14 Apr 1998 00:00
Re: Ibidem custom format
Author: James Ernest
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 00:00
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Or add some wild numbers to the search string (WN-WN-space-Char)?
James
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>From: Jukka-Pekka Takala[SMTP:jtakala@CC.HELSINKI.FI]
>Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 1998 12:37 AM
>To: Multiple recipients of list NOTABENE
>Subject: Re: Ibidem custom format
>
>Johan Thom writes:
>
>> 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?
>
>I assume it was to make sure that the cursor goes to the end of the
>directory and does not stop on a filename such as "CHARACTS FOR"
>-- and nobody happened to test it on a file with more than 1 GB free
>space. Ultimately, the problem derives from the fact that the last line of
>NB's directory display is designed to show neatly only less than 100
>MB free space.
>
>By the way, deleting the trailing dot from "se char." entails the
>possibility that the cursor will land on a filename that contains the
>string "CHAR"; so it might be safer to turn it into something like this:
>"sea Char". Even more robust would be to search for a long string of
>hyphens ("sea /------------/"), but then one would have to modify some
>of the following cursor movement commands as well.
>
>j-p takala
>Jukka-Pekka.Takala@Helsinki.fi
>
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