Walt,

I use Merge all the time, and have never run into problems.  Maybe 
I've just been lucky.  I know there were problems with the early 
Merge utility, but haven't heard much discussion about them since 
Version 5.  Also, I seem to remember a point where a manual merge was 
required, which of course I did, and after that the Merge has worked 
flawlessly for me on two different machines.  I wonder if the 
problems you've had are the result of corrupted files, and are not 
general problems with Merge.  Hard to say, since I haven't seen the files.

Steve

On Monday 10/30/06 16:05 Walt Smith wrote:
>It breaks everything from dictionary definitions to graphics file
>definitions and always has. I don't know why, and I doubt that FS does,
>either, or they'd fix it. Things get truncated or garbled. The fact is that
>I personally know of many cases, all of them reported on public lists, where
>running merge broke things and people had to re-install versions from 4.X
>through 7.X. I never run it and if it's necessary for me to do what the
>merge function would otherwise do, I do it manually.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Steve Dresser" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 6:13 PM
>Subject: Re: Off Topic - Jaws 7.1 Memory requirements
>
>
>Walt,
>
>I haven't run into problems with Merge since version 3.7.  How does
>it misbehave in 7.1?
>
>Steve