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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!unipalm!uknet!mucs!info.mcc.ac.uk!zlsiimw
  2. From: zlsiimw@info.mcc.ac.uk (Mark Whidby)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
  4. Subject: Re: Wanted: help with PC Gopher II version 1.05r3 vs. merlot.welch.jhu.edu
  5. Message-ID: <7430@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
  6. Date: 25 Jan 93 09:19:28 GMT
  7. References: <1993Jan21.165943.12179@alw.nih.gov> <1jmoqlINN7gm@mizar.usc.edu>
  8. Sender: news@cs.man.ac.uk
  9. Reply-To: M.Whidby@mcc.ac.uk
  10. Organization: Manchester Computing Centre
  11. Lines: 23
  12.  
  13. In article <1jmoqlINN7gm@mizar.usc.edu>, sharp@mizar.usc.edu (Malcolm Sharp)
  14. writes:
  15. |> In article <1993Jan21.165943.12179@alw.nih.gov> ado@elsie.nci.nih.gov (Arthur
  16. |> David Olson) writes:
  17. |> >Using PC Gopher II version 1.05r3, if I connect to merlot.welch.jhu.edu,
  18. |> >pick the "Search Databases of Welchlab..." selection, pick the
  19. |> >"Cloning Vectors: plasmids, phage, etc." selection, then search for,
  20. |> >for example, "rat", I get an apologetic popup window stating that gopher
  21. |> >is "Sorry!  When I looked I didn't find anything."
  22. |> ...other deleted..
  23. |> 
  24. |> I have this same problem with the PC-Client (Clarkson drivers).  It
  25. |> occurs with any search of a WAIS (ie, the "sorry ..." msg.).  I too
  26. |> have confirmed that the search should have come up with something by
  27. |> doing the identical search with a Unix client.  
  28. |> 
  29. |> DOes this PC client have a bug?
  30.  
  31. Yes, it's a known bug - something to do with a limitation of Turbo Pascal
  32. I believe.
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  34. _____________________________________________________________
  35. Mark Whidby, Distributed Systems, Manchester Computing Centre
  36.