I have run into a problem 3 times this week that has caused me to waste a lot
of time. The problem is as follows:
While performing some large calculation on a large datafile (typically, 2000 -
20000 cases with 50-100 variables) Splus shuts down with the usual Win95 error
box. This is annoying but not horrendous. However, this apparently corrupts a
file in my database and whenever I try to attach that database I immediately
get the same error. This is especially troublesome if the error is in my
default database which automatically gets attached on startup. The only way I
can seem to fix the problem is to look in the database, guess which file is
causing the problem and delete it, delete it from the __nonfi, listing if it is
a numbered file, and delete the sum4 files so they will rebuild. I find that I
also need to delete the init folder and prev folder so that a copy of the
wayward file doesn't try to load again.
Even this procedure wouldn't be too bad if there was a way to identify which
file was causing the offense. I am wondering if anyone has a better solution to
this problem. (BTW - just telling me to forget about using the object browser
is not a good answer. I think that feature is especially useful. I work on
10-20 different projects a week and the organizational features of the browser
make keeping track of the details of those very easy)
I have had this same problem on three different machines with three different
versions of Splus ( Splus4.0 rel 3, Splus 4.0 rel 2, Splus 4.5) all running
under Win95.
Michael Conklin
mconklin@cresearch.com
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