Didn't happen to have white stripes and go by the name of Freddie did it?
Could explain explain the resurgence ;) Alan On 25/05/2010, at 10:35 AM, Scott Prentice wrote: > Hi Jenny... > > This brings up my memory of "the evil dot." Back in 1995 or 6(?) (FM > 4 or 5) I ran into a file that exhibited similar strange behavior. I > could search (forward) for a word that I knew was in the file, and > it would never find it. But, if I searched backwards it found the > word without trouble. Spell checking had similar issues. I found > that if the cursor was after a certain point in the file, the word > could be found. After a bit of thrashing about, I discovered that > the culprit was a period (the evil dot). If I deleted this period > everything worked fine. > > What was happening is that the period was like a black hole that > caused any processing to return to the beginning of the file. I > could copy this character into any other file and the same thing > would happen .. but if I saved the file to MIF, there was nothing > apparently special about it .. just a simple period. > > I saved the period off in a file for later use (don't ask) .. but > somewhere along the way it was lost (maybe it found its way to your > file). > > I suppose it's possible that you have a similar situation .. see if > you also can't search for this misspelling .. and see how far away > from the word you can move the cursor and have it still found. Try > searching backwards. Who knows. > > I've not seen this behavior again in FM, so I don't think it's a > serious problem, but maybe it's making a resurgence. Or maybe this > is a totally different problem. > > Cheers, > > ...scott > > Scott Prentice > Leximation, Inc. > www.leximation.com > +1.415.485.1892 > > -- Alan T Litchfield AlphaByte PO Box 141, Auckland, 1140 New Zealand http://www.alphabyte.co.nz http://www.alphabyte.co.nz/beatrice