I ran into a problem tonight with SWATH locking up when trying to find a near fighter to SD in a game I had just started about 2 hours earlier. I thought that Swath's database might have became corrupt somehow and deleted it. I created a new database and imported twx into it and it locked again as soon as I tried the near fig. Deleted it again and tried the near fig w/o importing twx and it worked. I deleted the twx file an ran ztm again, and noticed that there was a sector that could not be reached. Tried the near fig routine in Swath and it locked up.

My guess is that the non-reachable sector is what caused the problem. The problem had not surfaced earlier before the first ZTM, but did afterward. So, if you run into this problem - an unreachable sector may be the cause. (I did try computer plots to the sector and it showed up as not within 100 warps - all avoids had been cleared). 100 warps also seems somewhat excessive....

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