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S U M M A R Y


DIARY: August 3, 1998 10:39 AM Monday; Rod Welch

Received letter from Wayne, encountered problem, sent SDS update.

1...Summary/Objective
2...Writing letter, Entering Contact to Doc Log Crashed
......Closing and Opening Program, or Re-Starting W95 Sometimes Needed
3...Submitted SDS Update with link to Explanation of Improvements
4...File Access - F1 F3, Major Improvement
5...Help for Writing a Letter, Publishing on Web with Links to SDS


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CONTACTS 
0201 - State of Montana                     406 444 6699 fax 6721
020101 - Department of Natural Resources and Conservation
020102 - Mr. Wayne Wetzel, Ph.D.; Deputy Director =406 444 6722
020103 - Director's Office

SUBJECTS
Jul 13, 1998
Doc Log Load Contacts to Secondary Fields

0504 -    ..
0505 - Summary/Objective
0506 -
050601 - Follow up ref SDS 14 0000, ref SDS 12 0000.
050602 -
050603 -
050604 - Writing letter, Entering Contact to Doc Log Crashed
050605 -
050606 - Received ref DRT 1 0000 from Wayne saying SDS hung when he tried to
050607 - use Doc Log system to write a letter.
050608 -
050609 - I have been using this code without a problem, so hopefully, the
050610 - corrections created the past few days that will be in this update will
050611 - solve his problem.  The general problem seems like one of the new
050612 - Contact fields is not filled out, maybe we did not get the line number
050613 - field correct, which is very easy to fix by just using help to see
050614 - what the structure should be and using F6 to create it.
050615 -
050616 -         [On 980806 received Wayne's contacts. ref SDS 16]
050617 -
050618 -      Closing and Opening Program, or Re-Starting W95 Sometimes Needed
050619 -
050620 -      This alerts Wayne that sometimes SDS gets a bit confused and does
050621 -      not perform correctly.  I think this is because we are using code
050622 -      in macro files that should be compiled because the compiler space
050623 -      has been exceeded.
050624 -
050625 -      On 980722 Morris and I considered this problem. ref SDS 7 0000
050626 -
050627 -      In any case, that is one simple solution to try.  But it should
050628 -      be very rare when this occurs.
050629 -
050630 -      Equally rare but also possible, sometimes W95 gets tired, and
050631 -      needs to be rebooted to clear something.  I encounter this most
050632 -      of the time when the ISP returns a message saying the password is
050633 -      incorrect.  Booting the system, resets stuff.
050634 -
050635 -      In Wayne's case, he likely turns off his computer at least once a
050636 -      day, so the W95 confusion problem should not occur very often on
050637 -      his system.
050638 -
050639 -
050640 -  ..
050641 - Submitted SDS Update with link to Explanation of Improvements
050642 -
050643 - Submitted ref DIT 1 0000 notifying Wayne of another update, to fix
050644 - his current problem.  It is linked to this record for context.
050645 -
050646 - prepared:
050647 -
050648 -            cs.zip         c: 01 04
050649 -                           c: sd 01
050650 -                           c: sd 03
050651 -
050652 -            hs.zip         h: sd 04
050653 -                           h: sd 05
050654 -
050655 -   Instructions for installation are in the record for 980627, please
050656 -   see. ref SDS 4 9774
050657 -
050658 -
050659 - This update has a few fixes plus the work in Help to explain how to
050660 - send a letter via Internet on the web rather than using regular email,
050661 - per the record on 980427. ref SDS 1 2326, and as explained on 980720.
050662 - ref SDS 6 0709
050663 -
050664 -
050665 - File Access - F1 F3, Major Improvement
050666 -
050667 - This works a little differently, but not in a way that can create
050668 - problems if a mistake is made.  See the work on 980728 for
050669 - explanation. ref SDS 10 0000
050670 -
050671 -
050672 -  ..
050673 - Help for Writing a Letter, Publishing on Web with Links to SDS
050674 -
050675 - Link to record on 980801 on changes that converting Editor file to
050676 - HTML does more stuff. ref SDS 15 0000
050677 -
050678 - All of this will be a little confusing at first.
050679 -
050680 - I called Wayne and let him know about this capability and that we can
050681 - go through it once or twice on the phone when he is ready.
050682 -
050683 - He may wish to check the record receiving his letter last week on
050684 - 980731. ref SDS 14 1868
050685 -
050686 -
050687 -
050688 -
Distribution. . . . See "CONTACTS"