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Re: [ECS] Help with Log States Don Stephens Sat, 24 Oct 1998 22:48:21 -0700

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From: Michael David <michaeld@michaeldavid.com>
To: ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org <ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org>
Date: Saturday, October 24, 1998 10:33 PM
Subject: RE: [ECS] Help with Log States


>Hi Don!
>
>Are you using the latest beta?  I have found a few weird things where event
>lines didn't quite work as expected.  One of the anomalies was when I had
>punctuation in the item name.  So, you might take the "." out of the state
>name and see if that helps.

No...I'm using 3.4.024 Took the "." out of the name but didn't help


>
>Is ECS generating an error on this line?: Do    Status.Log     Set     Log
>States


Yes it is
>
>You're sure Status.log is a text item right?  You have the "@" before the
>file name right?  I know you said Status.log and Status Report were the
>same; just thought I'd check.

I've tried it as a file item, as a text item without a "@", and with the
leading @.

>
>Try this:  Go to the group page, and call up Status.log on a blank line.
>Now, tab though the states until you get to "log states" and hit <return>.
>Did that work?  Or, did you get the same error?

It won't let me type it in the group page without generating the error
message "Value 256 is not a legal selection ("Test Event line 2")

>
>Hey, you don't have some other item named  "Log States" do you?

ECS wouldn't let that happen, and I renamed it anyway.

>
>I'm going to bed now....  Good Luck!  :)


Me too, and here it's three hours earlier! Thanks for the help.

Don

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