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Hints and Tips
9.5
Archiving to floppy Ö If you want to archive a large directory from a
hard disc onto floppies, (a) give all the floppies the same name,
(b)ácopy onto floppy 1 until Édisc fullæ message, (c)ádismount the
floppy, (d) mount the second one, (e) click on ÉRetryæ and away you go,
(f) donæt forget to give the floppies a meaningful name once you have
finished.
9.5
Wouter Kolkman, <wkolkman@lindis.demon.co.uk>
9.5
CC Turbodrivers Ö You may find that you get different paper margins when
using the standard !Printers application compared with CC settings. CC
helpline was right: the Acorn driver does not check for the printer DIP
switch settings! The printer I tried was an HP Deskjet.
9.5
Wouter Kolkman, <wkolkman@lindis.demon.co.uk>
9.5
Display of large row numbers in PipeDream 4 Ö I have read several times
in your magazine about how PipeDream 4 will not display large row
numbers correctly. During an idle moment recently, I experimented with
this anomaly and found that the effect is dependent on the Desktop
display font used (obviously only applicable to RISC OS 3.5 or later).
9.5
A monospaced font (System, Courier etc) give the worst results, chopping
off all but the last two figures in the row number. Proportionally
spaced fonts are much better, displaying at least the last three
numerals.
9.5
However, for some unknown reason, the outline font öSystem.Mediumò
supplied with RISC OS 3.5 allows at least four numerals to be displayed
in the row border. System.Medium is not a particularly attractive choice
for the desktop font but as it is so easy to change it, very long
PipeDream files can be quite simply viewed in System.Medium, before
reverting to oneæs favourite font. Changing the desktop font does not
alter the font in which the PipeDream file itself is displayed.
9.5
Robin Hampshire, Devon.
9.5
Network cards on RISC OS 3.6 Ö Please check the file
!Boot.Choices.Boot.PreDesk.SetUpNet, otherwise you may find that quite a
few modules are Éunpluggedæ.
9.5
Wouter Kolkman, <wkolkman@lindis.demon.co.uk>
9.5
Night Sky and the system date Ö Some time ago, my version of Night Sky
suddenly refused to load, and nothing I tried (from starting the program
directly from floppy to a complete reset of my computer) helped.
9.5
Since yesterday (New Year) it works again; the trouble lies in the
(German RISC OS only?) system date; Night Sky checks the date while
loading and, for some reason, canæt handle December! Clares have
promised to look for a solution. So if, in December, Night Sky gave you
trouble, try it again in January!
9.5
Jochen Konietzko, K÷ln, Germany.
9.5