Using version 2.5, 6 clients, client/server, XP workstations ... all clients working fine until last week (now one has a problem) ...

While I was out of town on vacation (of course), one of the Sesame workstations in the office got a glitch.  Whenever Sesame is pulled up on this workstation client, pressing the tab key results in a ^I character sequence being inserted into the field.  If the enter key is pressed (instead of the tab key) then the result isn't an advance out of that field, but a ^M character sequence is inserted into the field.

It only seems to happen with this one workstation.  I've switched the keyboard - no difference.  I hooked up a laptop to this workstation network cable, and the problem didn't occur, so I've eliminated the network cable and network router port as the culprit.  Tomorrow I'll move the computer physically to another network cable, and see if the error continues (if it does, that would suggest a network card issue, wouldn't it?).

Any suggestions on what could be causing this glitch?  The operator says she thinks she remembers that there had been a power dip in the office that day that Sesame started acting up, as it glitched up her email retrieval, too.  Rebooting solved that email problem, although I think there is a continuing issue with a batch.bat file that logs her computer onto various mapped network drives.  The batch file runs through some of the command lines, but not all of them.).   Should I replace the executable sesame file with an .exe copy, and see if that fixes it (and save my lower back and knees from moving the workstation unnecessarily)?

Does a program such as notepad behave the same way?

Hi lksseven,

I am almost 100% certain you can rule out the network adapter. I'm not sure why Sesame is the only program being affected by this problem in this way, but it's sounding like other programs are also being affected in different ways unique to them(The batch file, windows shutdown).

If other programs were behaving the same I'd look at locale settings and keyboard input settings under windows control panel, which you may still want to do, but with the other problems you're experiencing it might be time for a windows re-install.

-Ray