Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utai!sumex-aim.stanford.edu!BURDVAX.PRC.UNISYS.COM!fritzson From: Richard Fritzson Newsgroups: comp.sys.xerox Subject: Re: problems with ADVICEs in lyric Message-ID: <8802192129.AA16626@bigburd.PRC.Unisys.COM> Date: 19 Feb 88 21:29:56 GMT References: <0.43520.20995.54682.9677@XV.MIT.EDU> Distribution: ut Organization: Unisys Corporation, Paoli Research Center; Paoli, PA Lines: 27 To: Kevin_Crowston@xv.mit.edu Cc: fritzson@burdvax.prc.unisys.com, info-1100@sumex-aim.stanford.edu In article <0.43520.20995.54682.9677@XV.MIT.EDU> you write: >I'm having a little problem with ADVICEs in lyric. I want to store them >on a file, so I put (ADVICE fn-name) in the FILECOMS. When I store >the file, however, I do (MAKEFILE file-name '(FAST RC ST)) which >I think reloads the file. The advice then seems to double (that is, if I >edit the ADVICE, I see that the same ADVICE has been applied twice). >Worse, every time I MAKEFILE the file, I double it again, so after >four or five tries, I get 16 or 32 copies of the ADVICE. Also, the file The instructions generated by the ADVICE in the FILECOMS no longer overwrite the existing advice, they augments it. Every time you load the file, the advice will double. We reported this exasperating behavior last fall. It was written up in the AIS hotline Bulletin #10 (January 15, 1988). Aside from clearly explaining the problem, the bulletin article has this to say: WORKAROUND: NONE REFERENCE: AR8495, AR9440 The only thing I've been able to do is always edit all the advice in the file every time I do a repeated load in order to eliminate the duplication. (Guess how often I save advice to files these days?) -- -Rich Fritzson ARPA: fritzson@prc.unisys.com UUCP: {sdcrdcf,psuvax1,cbmvax}!burdvax!fritzson