Re: Real newbie question.

"William D. Tallman" <wtallman@olypen.com> writes:

> When I am entering values into a table, and make a mistake, sometimes
> there is an error message, and sometimes the equal sign in the prompt
> becomes a single quote.  Error messages I can puzzle out, but I have not
> discovered how to recover from the single quote in the prompt.  I wind up
> having to kill the terminal and start all over
>
> Can someone point me to the explanation of this?

The single quote in the prompt means that you've type an unclosed
single quote.

-Doug
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