freechain error

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 12:10:12PM -0500, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> Quoting Dennis Malen <dmalen at malen.com>:
> > Just got back from vacation.
> >
> > The problem was the use of the "-" as lookup. I changed it to lookup
> > with the name of the actual file and it worked well.
> >
> > As far as the speed of my system in conjunction with freechain I don't
> > kow why it worked so fast. In any event we have not had a problem since I
> > changed the lookup.
> >
> > It probably is an FP problem but it works when I changed the method of
> > lookup.
> [...]
> 
> Have you contacted fpsupport, and given them enough information to
> duplicate the original problem?  (And again, what is it about the
> way you used lookup-dash that caused problems, when others use it
> all the time without any problems?)

I can see what he did; what I can't figure out is how he tested "-" for
truth of lookup.  I regularly bitch that you can't do that, and it
seems on the critical path for what he wants to do.

Cheers,
-- jra
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