Dear AskSam ListServe Subscribers,

We have posted a fix for this reporting problem om our update site. We had
to do a whole new build of askSam,  which is askSam 3.0 L and askSam 3.0 L
Professional. If you do not have that URL here it is:

http://www.asksam.com/update

Go ahead and download that release and if you are still having problems
email us back.

David Brooks
askSam Tech Support

At 08:27 PM 1/5/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>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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