Hi Roy,
On Feb 22, 1998, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
 RJT> I can't figure this at all...
 JS> I can give you one clue from past experience.  I had a problem
 JS> similar to this years ago and finally traced it to a nul
 JS> character (00) in the line that was causing problems in the
 JS> config file.  It wasn't in Max.Ctl but I can imagine that it
 JS> could cause difficulties in any text-based config. Took two
 JS> days to find the blasted thing.
 RJT> How did you find it?  FWIW, I've heard things about such
 RJT> stuff as non-printing characters that appeared to be a
 RJT> space, and used qedit to "go over" all of what I thought
 RJT> were spaces in menus.ctl, though I didn't try that anywhere
 RJT> else.
Struggled with it for quite some time trying several different 
approaches--all of which failed to fix the problem.  I was about to give up 
when it occurred to me that there might be "corruption" in the config file.  
I didn't see any but remembered that neither a 255 nor a 00 would be visible 
inside the editor.  So I searched for the 255: nothing.  However, a search 
for nul characters found two of the dang things.  Replaced both with the 
appropriate space characters and we were off and running.  This isn't 
something one forgets.
 JS> The include for menus.ctl is next to the last line in my
 JS> max.ctl if that means anything.  Like:
 JS>  .....
 JS>  Include Menus.Ctl
 JS>  Include Protocol.Ctl
 RJT> Yep, and taking that line and moving it up to the top of
 RJT> that list fixed the problem.  Weird!
Only thing I can think of is that moving the line may have "fixed" some sort 
of corruption in the line itself.  Weird is right!
Cheers,
 -Jack
  ogre@nashville.com
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