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Re: YET ANOTHER silly suggestion about falling off the end of the earth
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 16 Oct 1998 22:13:01 GMT
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POSSIBLE DUP, I outsmarted myself with the back button.
Todd Lehman writes:
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> Maybe, but it's the same problem there -- when it gives the "article does
> not exist" message, it doesn't know if you walked off the end or if the
> article was cancelled.
Show the error, then...
Show articles from -20 to +20 (pick a number, 20 may be too big) which you can
try for no matter whether the user fell off the beginning, the end, or hit a
hole (due to cancel). Based on the displayed articles that actually result, the
user can tell which it is.
++Lar
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