We have a fix and are doing final testing. We expect to post the updated
version later this week or early next week.

Phil

At 06:34 AM 1/6/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>Me too!  I have over 100 reports using the +'s.  A universal fix would be
>nice.
>
>I re-loaded a pre-3.0k version and the reports still work fine.  Clearly a
>problem brought on by 3.0k.  It affects reports that don't contain any date
>fields, so it doesn't seem to be date related.
>
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> > From:         Glenn Kersten, Suburban Library
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> > Reply To:     For users of askSam: A Free-form Information Manager
> > Sent:         Wednesday, January 05, 2000 8:27 PM
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> > Subject:      Problem with "Limit Field Length" Feature
> >
> > I downloaded and installed askSam v. 3.0 K this evening, and discovered
> > an apparent bug in the new version. I've designed a number of reports
> > that make use of the "Limit field length" feature, in which the field
> > name is followed by a number of plus (+) signs to truncate the field
> > contents. Until I installed the new version, this feature worked just
> > fine, but now it either displays nothing, or only a portion of the field
> > contents.
> >
> > I even tested it using askSam's own sample database, Reports.ASK. If you
> > run the "Field Length" report, only those fields using the "X" character
> > to limit column width are displayed.
> >
> > If necessary, I'll change all of my pluses to "Xs" -- but I have about
> > 30 different reports. Is there a fix available?
> >
> > On a better note -- the date comparison problem (transitioning from 1999
> > to 2000) seems to be working great. I needed to convert newly entered
> > dates from the MM/DD/00 format to MM/DD/2000, but once done, all date
> > comparisons are working fine.
> >
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