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From:Richard Lane
Date:6 Aug 2000 at 14:26:59
Subject:Re: AmigaGuide� in OS3.1

Hello Gareth

On 04-Aug-00, Gareth Griffiths wrote:

>>> Ah well. Is that something similar to needing to put a blank node at the
>>> end of a guide in other versions, otherwise the last node wouldn't
>>> display?
>>
>> Hmmm, never heard of that one. Where did you see this?

[...]

> Then, if I clicked on a link to the last node, it would just show a blank
> screen, not "This is the last node in the guide." so to counter that I
> always put an extra node at the end of the guide containing nothing in it at
> all. This seemed to fix the problem, but if it's just a lack of carriage
> returns, then it's furry muff :-)

I'm fairly sure you'll find that it's due to the lack of carriage returns at
the end of the file. IIRC this isn't a problem with Workbench 3.0 or lower.
ISTR having to edit some very early guide when I switch to 3.1 many years
ago.



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richard@magnumopus.co.uk

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