On 5/1/97 I wrote:

>Last week we had an application fail with dreaded "Broken Chain" message.  To keep it
>short: it wasn't really a broken chain.  With a bunch of help from Adager we found that
>there were 2,305 records missing from the dataset.  Further investigation turned up
>52 blocks of hosed (technical term for set to binary zeros) records beginning on an
>even block boundary near the end of the records in the set.  The suspect is DDX.

I apparently did not make it clear that I am not inferring DDX is an egg sucking dog.
We have been running DDX for over a year with no problem (other than that business
about balancing the records/blocks on the last increment) and it has been of great
convenience.  Also note that DDX only a suspect not a convict, although I'd bet the
first bail of cotton this summer it did it.

Additionally, no one has contacted me with similar experiences.  However I have heard
out of several (12) people who got a bit nervous over my experience (I'm not nervous
I'm just balder).  Sorry for the waste of space but I wanted to clear the scene up a bit.

Regards,

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