Konstantin v. Poschinger Oct 1 5:57 AM
> Hi Konstantin,
>
> Ouch! Nicely caught. I'm very surprised that this bug hadn't
> turned up before.
>
> A while back, somebody (might have been you?) pointed out that
> Guide had trouble if there were more than 1000 DSS downloads,
> because it stored them as four-digit files '0000.fit' through
> '0999.fit'. I'd made two errors: that first digit never got
> used, and I was working in base 10.
>
> I revised the code to use A-Z as well, so that we'd be
> working in base 36 and could have 36^4 = 1.6 million files.
> But I noticed you had three-digit file names; that caused me
> to realize that, in some cases, a character could get left
> out, and you'd see the issue you report. Yet another case of
> "fixing a bug creates, on average, 1.1 new bugs". (Well,
> one hopes to make it, on average, less than one bug, so
> the series converges to zero. But sometimes, it does feel as
> if the series is exponentially divergent.)
>
> This will be fixed in the next update I post. In the meantime,
> if you edit the file 'ifile' in your Guide folder, and make the
> first four characters 0000, all should be well.
>
> -- Bill
>
>