Conference iosg::all-in-1

2587.0. "IA after XF displays GARBAGE" by TAV02::CHAIM (Semper ubi Sub ubi .....) Wed Mar 26 1997 15:26

ALL-IN-1 V3.0A

A customer has described the following problem (which I verified by looging
into the customer system):

A user wants to forward several documents/mail to another user. She does an
index of the folder and selects the documents/mail she wants and then issues XF
and enters the address information and sends it.

The user who receives this message reads it and then issues IA to see the
different attachments. 

In one instance the titles were missing (even though each document/mail had a
title. In another instance (using the same folder and documents/mail) IA
displayed nothing but numbers in ALL the fields (1 for first, 2 for second, and
etc.).

When I logged into the customer system I was able to reproduce this problem,
BUT only for that particular user. The same sequence of commands worked fine
with a different user and the MANAGER account. I tried it several times with
the "corrupted" user and each time I got the number result. I tried doing both
logged into the user account and using NEWDIR and the results were the same.

I suspect that there is some sort of corruption with this particular account. I
suggested reorganizing the file cabinet.

Thanks,

Cb.

    Hi,
    
    There were some code level fixes to this area in V3.1. In particular
    the CAB$ATTACH data set used by Index of Attachments will return a
    random 1 byte character for any DAF field that is not present.
    
    Any chance your customer can upgrade?
    
    Cheers
    
    Stuart