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to: Jerry Schwartz
from: Chris Maddock
date: 1997-03-31 12:54:10
subject: Name Lookup

On 29 Mar at 18:41, Jerry Schwartz of 1:142/928 wrote to All:

JS> Does anyone have a clue how the name lookup works in a V7 nodelist?  It 
JS> seems to be remarkably perverse.  For example, if I enter
"George Peace" it 
JS> comes up with 1:270/104, which is nodelisted as "PEACE"
and doesn't like 
JS> calls from strangers, rather than 1:270/101 which is nodelisted as
"GEORGE 
JS> PEACE".

JS> Is there any way to change this behavior?

Jerry, I tried this just now and it worked 101% okay here.

I suspect but am not sure, that your problem is in the way your nodelist
compiler indexes the nodelist.

Regards,
Chris Maddock
chrism{at}softtech.brisnet.org.au

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