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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 17:53:56 IST
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- From: "J-P Takala, University of Helsinki,
- Sociology" <JTAKALA@FINUHA.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: IBID problem with SELECT
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- A simple reindexing has solved some of my spurious empty searches with
- Ibid under NB4. I feel that it sometimes easily (allows you to) slightly
- corrupt(s) the database, more easily so than did 3.1+Ibid.
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- Another trick I once did--and which might work here--was to take a normal
- look at the NBBIB*.DAT files and find that I could only see so many
- entries, i.e., there was an uninvited end-of-file marker there, and
- SELECT probably would not search past it while some other commands would.
- To fix that, one can Set-Other-File-
- End-of-file Marker to something visible and fix the file manually.
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- j-p takala
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