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>Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 04:17:43 -0700
>From: Ian Collier <imc@ECS.OX.AC.UK>
>Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory
>Subject:      Re: Xedit strangeness
>
>In article <richgrEDvtu5.KDs@netcom.com>, richgr@netcom.com (Rich
Greenberg)
>wrote:
>>One of my compatriots has come up with a strange behavior in
>>xedit.
>
>>When viewing a file, do a: Verify 1 72
>>Then, with NULLS ON, position the cursor on any line that has some
>>characters on it, and start inserting blanks at the beginning of the
>>line, pushing your rightmost character to EXACTLY column 73.
>>(PA2 works just as well as NULLS ON.)
>
>>After doing this, press the enter key and LO and BEHOLD!
>>Where did the character under column 73 go????
>>It is nowhere to be found.
>
>I'm interested to know what you think should be the correct behaviour,
>since this seems the most logical result to me.
>--
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Greetings;

The correct behaviour would be exactly the same as would happen if you
had v 1 * set.  All characters in the record would shift to the right,
and the last character in the record would disappear, get truncated,
whatever.  Remember, verify just sets a window of view.  To be consistent
with the way it works now I would expect that if you entered v 21 30 that
positions 1 thru 20 and 31 thru end-of-reord would be immeadiatly
discarded!   FYI, the help screens don't even hint that  verify has any
effect on the way any other commands work.  Only that it defines an area
to be displayed!

But, it has been verified, by myself and others, that it worked in this
strange way at least as far back as HPO 5.0!  Does anyone remember it
ever working differently?

Good Luck!
Dennis