Re: Orbis malfunction

["Tom F. Driver" <tfd3>]

Paul:

Your suggestion was a good one.  I did find (contrary to my expectation) some
long filenames in a sub-directory I was trying to index in Orbis, and renaming
them corrected the hangup I asked about.  So, thank you for that Christmas
present.

But now Orbis has another hangup.  When I Build a textbase, Orbis immediately
lets me use it, and finds things OK.  However, if I get out of Orbis and then
return to it, there's trouble.  Whether I ask it (at the first menu) to pick a
textbase or use the default one, the program hangs.  The sceen clear, the
message "Checking textbase" appears, and the NB goes dead.  It will not even
respond to the emergency quit command.  Do you have any thoughts about that
one?

Merry Christmas!

Tom Driver

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Priority:               Normal
Date sent:              Tue, 22 Dec 1998 10:50:22 -0800
Send reply to:          "Paul J. Bodin" <pjbodin>
From:                   "Paul J. Bodin" <pjbodin>
Subject:                Re: Orbis malfunction
To:                     Multiple recipients of list NOTABENE
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> On Tue, 22 Dec 1998 06:51:35 -0500, Tom F. Driver wrote:
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> > My Orbis won't orbit.  I'd appreciate help from anybody.  Here's the history:
> >
> > Weeks ago I had a disk disaster, from which I've been slowly recovering.  I
> > knew I would have to re-build my Textbases but wasn't worried by that because
> > my data files were recovered.  But when I tried, Orbis failed.  I've re-
> > installed NB 4.5.  I deleted all the old entries in the Orbis sub-directory and
> > then re-installed Orbis.
>
> Hmmm...
>
> Is there any chance that you have some of the files you want to use in
> directories that have Win95-type names that DOS programs don't
> recognize as legal?  For example, if you have some of you files in a
> subdirectory of the "C:\Program Files" directory NB will have some of
> the problems you describe.  The directory name is too long and contains
> an illegal character (the space).  Win95 is supposed to supply
> DOS-legal filenames to DOS programs, but some programs (NB among them)
> will choke in the confusion.
>
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Tom F. Driver
New York City
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