RE: URGENT! - Program Error

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Wills, Mike N. (TC)
>
> That was my next plan...

Yup.  You've got the idea.  Debugging is basically just tedious,
step-by-step work.  And the dirty little secret is this: the only reason I'm
good at debugging is because I've made so many programming errors in my
career <grin>.  So, I've built a sort of mental catalog of places to look,
based on my particular programming practices and mistakes I've made in the
past.  Once you solve this one, it'll be in your repertoire, and the next
time you run across it you'll have a little head start.

Me, I've got a big ol' list of Pluta's Poor Programming Practices, and so I
can usually spot my mistakes pretty quickly.  Even so, I make brand new ones
all the time.  My last one was trying to access buffer fields in a COBOL
program without opening the associated file.  COBOL doesn't find that
amusing at all.

Joe