[comp.soft-sys.andrew] Table problems!

mg32+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Michael Ginsberg) (09/12/90)

I created a sizeable table (several hundred x several hundred) under
table (version 7.0, ATK 15.0) on the i386.  Many of the fields had
several-dozen-character formulae in them.  It was big.  I edited it,
played around with it, was satisfied that everything was correct.  To be
safe, I then saved it and opened a new copy of table and edited it.  It
was trashed.  What had happened was that at some point, it had broken
the line for the row, and started again on the next line.  It had broken
it in the middle of a formula, so the whole second line (for each "first
line") was nonsense.  If I pruned back the number of columns, eventually
it would load correctly.  I checked under the vax_3.0 systype (Version
7.0, ATK 11.0) and it also had the same failing.  My question: Is there
something I'm doing wrong?  Is this a known bug? What can I do?

--Michael Ginsberg, i386 Mach Group, Carnegie Mellon University