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Re: FOR files

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From: Ora Avni
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 00:00
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If it is of any help to you, I work on a Dell Pentium (not pentium II) 233,
and on a Dell 486.  Neither has ever given me any trouble with Ibid.

Have you talked to the Dell people?  I find them pretty helpful.

Ora Avni

At 10:27 AM 4/9/98 +0000, you wrote:
>I'm having trouble with Ibid. (NB45a+W95) on my new pentium II Dell
>machine.  When I try to generate an ordinary bibliography Ibid.
>reports "No FOR files saved" which obviously is not the case.
>On the contrary, Ibid. can generate any kind of bibliography on my
>other computer (an HP Vectra, Pentium 233).
>I've sent my .FOR files to John Oldham from NBNY but he didn't find
>anything wrong in them and asked for my startup files instead to
>prepare a double-boot set. It's becoming a sort of ritual answer from
>NY to suggest double-booting when W95 is concerned.
>Wonder if someone on the List can give me some help. Windows 95 is
>really naughty on the Dell machine. Now and then I get my NBxxx.DAT
>files modified unexpectedly by W95, that is, changed to "Read only
>files", and Ibid. cannot access them. I have to go into Explorer,
>Properties, uncheck the box on each .DAT files, and restart NB.
>Thanks for any suggestion.
>Dr. Enrique Lynch
>Dept. Historia de la Filosofia
>Estetica y Filosofia de la Cultura
>Universitat de Barcelona
>**************************************************
>e-mail:  lynch@trivium.gh.ub.es
>Fax:   34-3-417-9037
>***************************************************
>
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Ora Avni
Department of French
Yale University
New Haven, CT 06518
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