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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 08:56:28 EST
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- From: Austin Kerr <akerr@MAGNUS.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU>
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- I have had the strangest experience using NB4 on a brand new IBM 486SX machine.
- - The operating system installed is DrDos 6.0
- First,
- There is a file on the machine with the name "a" in one of my NB4
- subdirectories that I cannot access because of "Invalid Password." I have
- never used the password feature of DrDos 6.0
-
- Second, I moved material from one file to another, not really huge files, but
- failry long--notes taken in the historical society or archives over a few days'
- -time. After I was done, I decided to run the spell checker through the file.
- After a few screens, suddenly I hit a screen full of happy faces and other
- computer symbols. The corruption was just about one screen, and I could go
- back and reconstruct the data, so I lost nothing. Is this the result of some
- instability? The computer symbols were written to the disk somehow; that is,
- when I called the file to the screen in a second window, it had them too. Is
- there some instability in NB4 that folks are running into?
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- K. Austin Kerr direct line to office 614-292-2613
- Professor of History department line 292-2674
- Ohio State University fax 292-2282
- Columbus, Ohio 43210 USA e mail kerr.6@osu.edu
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