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- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 20:00:44 -0500
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- From: "Sarah L. Higley" <slhi@TROI.CC.ROCHESTER.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Ctrl-= and CUSTOMIZATION
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- Oh I am SO happy that someone has found the uppercase lowercase commands, as
- those were three of my favorites on NB2. I was even thinking, as I tried to
- customize my keyboard, of adding the old NB2 commands to those keys. I'm
- glad I didn't. Right now, I'm trying to figure out what was responsible for
- that enormous fiasco. But while we're at it, can the old nb2 commands, at
- least some of them, some of the simpler ones, be utilized? "rl" for instance
- removes the line. From right to left margin in NB2. It's not the same as
- the command for deleting the sentence. I was overly eager. I edited my
- copied nb.kbd and nblingua.kbd in nb4, forgetting to evoke the /x command
- when calling and storing. I think this is what screwed me up. Paul was
- right: lingua corrupts the file, I think. Jerry was right: do it in ASCII.
- Or disable the character expansion. Because what happened, after I
- loaded my newly edited files (basically rewriting them to NB4) was that
- I couldn't get the F9 key to work. I'd evoke a directory, the cursor
- would leap down to the first character of the list of files and nothing
- would get it back up again. I had to turn the machine off. Characters
- would type, but the more complicated commands were frozen or confused.
- It was horrible. I had a very sweaty moment. FORTUNATELY, I had made
- extra copies which were standing by in the event that such a general
- failure would occur. Now I made these copies in notabene. Was that a
- mistake? I didn't edit them, when reinstated, the program seems to work
- as well as it did before except for a few scary things: I'm getting a
- "general failure" sign (or was) when I ask for screen customizations
- like shift F4 that would flicker on for a while and then the program
- would kick in. And when I went to save something on my b-drive, I got
- the "general failure" sign in earnest, and I had to do a savedef to the
- a-drive. I suspect it's the diskette (five and a quarter)-- I HOPE--
- and not the program. But what does that mean-- "general failure"--
- short of instant death?
-
- And have I damaged the delicate wings of this dragonfly by overwriting
- and over-overwriting my keyboards? Or is NB4 simply demonstrating more
- of its customary crotchety self?--
-
- Don't get me wrong; unlike Janice I'm not yet ready to ask for my money
- back. And the scolding missives last week to the contrary, I DO value
- this complicated and wonderful new beast and find many good things to
- praise in it. I was merely hysterical last week. I still am, a little,
- because it's important to me to be able to type comfortably on my own
- keyboard.
-
- Will keep y'all posted--
-
- Sarah Higley (she's BAACCK)
-