I was using MPEX to search a set of files for a couple strings, and I
qualified the fileset with (ISASCII) to ensure only ASCII files would be
searched. Wouldn't you know it -- VIEW forms files (both "slow" and "fast")
are tagged as ASCII! I applied %ALTFILE ...;BINARY to both forms files, and
everything appears to work fine.
 
As I recall, "ASCII" is really just documentation, isn't it? I mean, unless
an application inspects this tag, it really doesn't affect how the file's
contents are processed, does it?
 
Just thought this was interesting...
 
--Glenn Cole
  Software al dente, Inc.
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