[Tutor] OT: Searching Tutor Archives

[Ken G.]

On 08/19/2015 07:34 PM, Alan Gauld wrote:
> On 19/08/15 18:43, Ken G. wrote:
>
>> explain how to found such an article or kindly refresh my memory on how
>> to correct an original file without using a secondary file. Thanks.
>
> Others have explained the search.
> Let me just point out that the number of cases where you
> want to do such a thing is vanishingly small.
>
> It's incredibly unreliable and error prone and if you mess
> it up you will probably screw up the source data such that
> you can't recover it or re-run it. It's almost never the
> best way to go about things - much better to fake it safely.
>
>
Thanks, Alan. Your point is well taken.

Ken