Accessing Context Doc

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Thunderstone
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Accessing Context Doc

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I have observed that when you retrieve the context doc to your browser
that sometimes: (1) you get the word of your search criteria tagged in
blue and you are positioned at its first occurance, or (2) you get the
word of the search criteria tagged in blue and are NOT positioned at the
first occurance (usually at the top), or (3) you get NO blue tagged word
and are positioned at the top of the doc. I have been quereied by our
users as to what conditions causes which of the various types of result to
occur.

Thanks.
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Accessing Context Doc

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You are seeing two undocumented features here.

One is a Netscape bug. It doesn't always correctly follow self-referencing
tags from a CGI program.

The second is caused by our mark-up program which is independent of the
actual index search. There is occasionally an inconsistency between
the mark-up program and the search code. We are working to correct this.
The second is cause by our mark-up program which is independent of the

Thanks
Bart Richards