QUIZ and subfiles

[RUTMJVA]

The one thing to remember if you use an 8 character file name in a 
portable subfile with the default of DICT (as opposed to NODICT)...

DON'T USE THE LETTER "Q" AS THE LAST LETTER.

It is just too confusing to explain, my head explodes just thinking 
about it.


On 3/31/23 17:39, Robert Deskin wrote:
> Excellent.
>
> Bob
>
>> On Mar 31, 2023, at 5:12 PM, James B. Byrne<byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca>  wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, March 31, 2023 15:12, Robert Deskin wrote:
>>> I’ll jump in here with my vaguely recollected memory. If I recall correctly,
>>> NODICT and PORTABLE are mutually exclusive. When you create a portable subfile,
>>> you are naming the dictionary part. The data part is the first 7 letters of the
>>> portable subfile name plus Q. I may be totally off base here, but that would
>>> explain it.
>>>
>>> Bob
>>>
>>
>> That appears to be the case.  I did not run across the Q data file naming
>> convention in the QUIZ manual thus my confusion.  However, it appears that
>> NODICTIONARY does indeed work with PORTABLE as no dictionary file is created
>> when that is specified but the Q file is.
>>
>> Anyway it is all working now.
>>
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Tracy Johnson
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