Re: bad delta/expanded view

[Steven Uran <Steven.Uran>]

At 10:19 AM 12/22/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I had a file in NB4.5 that drew an error message "invalid format command"
>when I opened it.  The bad delta was a BB with a missing <<.  The file was
>invisible beyond that point.  I went into expanded view and eliminated the
>rest of the bad delta, but still could not see the rest of the file.  Since
>I had the identical file on my notebook, I opened the file in a text editor
>(Kedit) rather than NB, erased the bad delta, and could then view the
>entire file in NB.  My question: why did the file disappear beyond the bad
>delta even in expanded mode?

In all likelihood you had an end-of-file marker inadvertently inserted at
that point.  The thing to do in such a case is to use an appropriate utility
to remove it, or to change the EOF marker setting in NB to some innocuous
unique character combination, call the file and delete the offending
occurrence and then change the setting in NB back to what it was.

>Daniel Field
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