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- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 21:36:52 GMT
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- From: Lee Komito <LKOMITO@IRLEARN.UCD.IE>
- Subject: Re: orbis
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene
- In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 4 Sep 92 18:57:00 EET from <JTAKALA@FINUHA>
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- On Fri, 4 Sep 92 18:57:00 EET J-P Takala, PL35 00931 HKi, 3432619 said:
- >Another problem with Orbis: I tried out four of the predefined formats for
- >TB structure. Only one came through, the one with a blank line as an entry
- >marker. The one with <<PR.B>> and <<PR.E>> and <<PR.K>> for designated
- >keywords just gave an "internal error" message with a number (9020?,
- >4020?). The same without <<PR.K>> and the one with <<PG>> as entry marker
- >went swiftly about indexing but I wasn't that happy when it turned out that
- >it had marked the whole 50 K test file to be just one entry! And the
- >markers were there, at least so said my eyes and the old Text Base. These
- >results were the same within and without DesqView. Has anybody found any
- >of the formats with designated keywords actually working?
-
- I hesitate to comment on any Orbis problems, since I was playing around
- with an earlier version, but I did have a similar problem to the above
- problem. When creating a textbase, I chose a predefined format in
- which <<PG>> was the end of text marker. This was so as to index
- interviews that I had recorded using Ibid+. However, I found that the
- result was to have the entire NBBIB000.DAT file treated as one record.
- When I picked double paragraph endings instead, the result was much
- better. So, perhaps the the beta version being released with NB4,
- some experiments with different predefined formats is in order.....
-
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