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#Live and Learn

    27-Oct-95 22:34:38
Sb: #Live and Learn
Fm: Frederick Abrams 100743,1717
To: Betty Clay/SYSOP 76702,337
Betty, Asha et al, Thanks again so much. I've been intuitively coming to grips with all of this and discovered that my dearchived downloads were appearing in my Systems directory. I have not figured out why typing "CD RAM" was not working as it did when I dearchieved AP, but with OPUS I have been moving the downloads into RAM and going from there. Betty, the word wrap problem, I must tell you, occurred with apdocs.lha once dearchived. It was the same with the text version as well, and I manually wrapped every line correctly (you'd think I would have learned what it said very well in the process). Anyway, learning to correctly illuminate segments of text suddenly struck instinctively. I simply need to hold down the left mouse button for about two seconds after it is clicked on any word or letter. Then as I move it with the button still clicked I can illuminate any portion I want either above or below the original starting point. As for getting stuck on AmigaUser, this has remained a mystery as suddenly it worked, then didn't again. I have found a solution, however, which is to check the "Stay Online" button. Of course, I must go offline in the "Hands On" position. But in my enthusiasm and haste to discover the wonders of the download world, I have made a real boo boo and wonder if someone might know exactly what I should do to correct it. I downloaded a new set of icons and colors for the Workbench. Several of them showed up as redundant drawers of a new image superimposed haphazardly over the originals in the Systems drawer of my Systems directory. I didn't like what I was seeing. I was not happy with the colors of the test installation, of the images or the icons and so I deleted the entire thing. When I did, my Systems drawer was deleted as well. I have Workbench 3.1 However, I do not have the software. I imagine that's not kosher, but someone who did some work on my system installed it for me without my prior knowledge, so I wasn't complaining. The software I have is 2.04. When this deletion occurred, I discovered a few problems (there are undoubtedly others I am not yet aware of). 1) Two shells (No. 3) disappeared and the third would not open. 2) My SCALA program would not open. A warning comes up saying that it cannot find a font. 3) The font on this screen has changed. It is larger than before and when I receive ANYTHING now, it is very difficult to read as nothing wraps correctly. I tried something in the interim, which is that I installed the System drawer from my 2.04 software. The shell works again, though it now says No. 1. Does that make any difference? However, the font problem remains. Is there something I can do, or is the solution to reinstall what was lost from 3.1? Or need I reinstall everything? As far as I can see, everything else is working OK. The Prefs drawer is still there, so are the tools. Well, live and learn. Frederick P.S. I just found the wrapping problem on my own letter upon importing it. I then wrapped everything correctly and upon saving and reopening the window, I have discovered that it has unwrapped. Frederick Abrams from Barcelona Frederick Abrams from Barcelona