Oh great!  I just put the January 1993 version of Quad on.

On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, John Backus wrote:

> Sam,
>
> I suffered through this with a January 1993 version of QUAD for a long time.
> I did not know why QUAD did this and I learned to reluctantly live with it.
> I found that frequent RENUMbering of the file decreased encounters with the
> problem.  Later, when on a system with multiple versions of QUAD, a Mark
> Weincam informed me that some later versions of QUAD were known to have an
> extra bug or two.  I now use a June 1991 version which appears to pre-date
> the introduction of the bug you are experiencing.
>
> John Backus
> Beechglen Development, Inc.
>
> Sam wrote:
>
>
> I am receiving the following errors in Quad Edit:
>
>   Numbered keep to text file EMASROLL.SAME.PROD
>   Purge old text file? Y
>   Read error on text file QUADTEXT
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
>   Error in procedure QKGETREC
>   Line numbers out of sequence on file
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
>

Tracy Johnson
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