[comp.sys.amiga] Excellence problems

stevel@tybalt.caltech.edu (Steve Ludtke) (09/09/88)

I just got Excellence the other day. It's a pretty impressive program, but
I've found one bug. I have a perfectly ordinary text file, and no matter
what it's named, with or without the .doc extention, excellence locks
up when you try to get it to display the files in any directory it's in.
That is, if I have the file in the root directory of the disk, and try
to open a file on that disk, excellence displays the first 2 or three files
for that disk, then locks upp for about 3 or 4 minutes. The gadgets still
flash, but excellence ignores everything for a while. Evenutally, the
file requestor vanishes, and everything else works fine again. It's really
quite incredible. I tried copying the file, renaming it, examining it for
control characters, etc ... Eventually I got it to load by adding a few
letters on a blank line at the beginning of the file. I haven't reported this
to them yet. I wondered if anyone else had seen this problem before I told
them about it. It's really wierd it only happens with this one file.
Thanks

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