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Re: YET ANOTHER silly suggestion about falling off the end of the earth
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Date: 
Fri, 16 Oct 1998 22:13:01 GMT
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POSSIBLE DUP, I outsmarted myself with the back button.

Todd Lehman writes:


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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(...) 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. --Todd (26 years ago, 16-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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