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The given word will always be of nine characters with one character designated as mandatory in each word created from any four or more characters in the designated word. No character can be used mire than once unless it appears more than once in the designated word and then only to the number of times that it appears in the designated word. Assuming that the word is "GREASEBOX" only the letter "E" can be used more than once. My apologiesfor using a 10 letter wits in mt initial post Sorry about the 10 letter word. Please see my later post

I am trying to design a word game using a word of nine characters. The player will see only those characters jumbled into a 3 x 3 square and the character in the centre spot is classified as mandatory. The player must create words of more than three characters using the characters of the word but including the mandatory character. Assuming the word is FORMATTING and the designated character is the letter T, what algorithm or script will check that:- a: only the letters from the word have green used b: the letters have only been used once. and c: the designated letter is included in the word Is these conditions are not met, then a message to be displayed .

Further research shows that it is the Instant Web Publishing option under the FileMaker - Sharing menu item which causes the problem. So be careful out there

I think I have solved the problem. I turned off all three types of sharing; FileMaker network, Instant web publishing and ODBC/JDBC. and "BINGO" closed in a jiff!! I'll let you all know if the problem really has gone away.

Created a new file with a script "exit application". No change. Or did you mean create a script in another appplication such as applescript or apple events?

I am using 8.5 Advanced on an Intel IMac. Closing the program is a bother. If, when I select "Quit FileMaker Pro Advanced" or the Apple Menu "Shut Down" the program takes about 75 or more seconds to do this or just freezez nd I have to invoke the "Force Quit Applications" command. I generally have about 8 or 9 files open hidden all the time. Why does this happen?

Have just upgraded from a G4 Mac to an Intel IMac. Although FMPro 8.5 Advanced operated OK without re- installing and all Plug-ins were recognised by FMPro, I took advice from FileMaker Aust and re- installed the program. Since then FMPro does not recognise any of the Plug-ins (even tose intalled by the installer program) other than zipscript and autoupdate. How do I get FMPro to recognise its own plug-ins which reside quite happily in the extensions folder of the FMPro 8.5 Advanced folder?

Have just upgraded from a G4 Mac to an Intel IMac. Although FMPro 8.5 Advanced operated OK without re- installing and all extensions were recognised by FMPro, I took advice from FileMaker Aust and re- installed the program. Since then FMPro does not recognise any of the extensions other than zipscript and autoupdate. How do I get FMPro to recognise its own extensions which reside quite happily in the extensions folder of the FMPro 8.5 Advanced folder?

Unless I am completely misunderstanding the reason for the "File Maintenance" utilities on FM 8 Advanced, I would have thought that these would have been much better placed in the standard version of the program. At present, to compact a file in the standard version one needs to resort to an ungainly scripted process. With the propensity of FM files to increase in size due to the way it stores all amendments it surely makes sense to have a simple menu selection in the Standard cersion as we have in Advanced. Or is that just too simple?