marshall@wind55.seri.gov (Marshall L. Buhl) (11/06/90)
Well, I got bit by the bug again. A year or two ago, my boss's cardfile got corrupted (using Win/386 v 2.11). When I called MS, they said they did not write CardFile and knew of a bug. The company that wrote CardFile would not let MS fix the bug (something like that anyway). Apparently, this bug has migrated to Win3. It bit my secretary last week. She had about 130 cards (limit is 1200 according to MS) and suddenly things started acting weird. When she went to choose some of the cards, she would see the contents for a moment, then she'd get an information window telling her she didn't have enough RAM to display the picture and that she should close other applications. Obviously, this is a bogus error message. When she hit "OK", the contents of the card would disappear. This is 100% repeatable. When I looked at the file (1.8 MB for 130 cards!), there are about a dozen copies of all the cards. Mixed in is what looks to be code (smileys, etc.) The file has been totally corrupted. I called MS before I remembered the previous problem. The support person asked me all the idiot user questions (CONFIG, TSR's, .INIs, etc.). Wasted a lot of time there. I cleaned everything out for his benefit. Then I remembered they weren't the authors of the software and that there had been a bug before. I told the guy about my earlier problem and he didn't know about it. He confirmed my story about not being able to fix this known bug with others at MS. He thought CardFile was a MS product. He even asked me to do a Help, About. It does say MS. Apparently, this bug has been around for a long time and is even worse with Win3. There's not much I can do but restore from old backups to get my secretary's cards back. You can't edit the cardfile. He mentioned a sharewhere (sic) program on Compu$erve that can convert cardfiles to and/or from text. MS isn't allowed to distribute it. He also wasn't real sure what it was good for. It may or may not help me. The program is called WINCARD and is in a file called WINCARD.ZIP on CompuServe. I don't have access to Compu$erve, so if anyone has this and thinks it's worth having, I'd like to hear about it. -- Marshall L. Buhl, Jr. EMAIL: marshall@seri.gov Senior Computer Missionary VOICE: (303)231-1014 Wind Research Branch 1617 Cole Blvd., Golden, CO 80401-3393 Solar Energy Research Institute Solar - safe energy for a healthy future
Renee@cup.portal.com (Renee Linda Roberts) (11/07/90)
If anyone is interested, I have WINCRD.ZIP and can send it via email in a uuencoded format. If I receive more than 5 replies, I will post it here. Renee Roberts Renee@cup.portal.com