Re: Answer Find/Replace crashing FM553 Win95

[Jay Smith <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the suggestion -- thanks to you, Dan, and Marcus for the
info that this is to be fixed in 556.

I sure wish I understood why SOME search/replace operations work
perfectly fine -- in this very same document and some do not.  If I
figure that one out, I will post it.

Jay Smith


Jeremy H. Griffith wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 24 Oct 1998 23:28:48 -0400, Jay Smith <jay@jaysmith.com> wrote:
> 
> >You can Find/Change perhaps 2-3 dozen times before it crashes.  If you
> >try to do Change All In Document, it crashes immediately.
> >
> >ALTERNATIVES??
> 
> 1. Save As MIF.
> 2. Bring MIF file into text editor (Word or WordPerfect will do)
>    and search-and-replace-all for your string.  Save as plain text.
> 3. Reload MIF file in Frame.
> 
> If you have the "sed" stream editor (a UNIX and GNUish tool)
> available it's even easier and faster:
> 
> sed "s/XXXS //g" yourfile.mif >newfile.mif
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
>    (jeremy@omsys.com)     http://www.omsys.com/

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