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Started by Ora Avni
Mon, 13 Apr 1998 00:00
Re: FOR files
Author: Ora Avni
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 00:00
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 >*************************************************** > ********************** Ora Avni Department of French Yale University New Haven, CT 06518
Re: FOR files
Author: Dr. Enrique Lynch
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 00:00
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On Mon, 13 Apr 1998 Ora Avni wrote: > 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 Thanks Ora for your suggestion. However, Pieter J.J. Botha found a solution to this problem: editing the NBIBID.HLP by deleting the full stop in the string |se char.| in Expanded Mode does the miracle. Ibid. can now access the .FOR files normally. Don't ask me why... Dr. Enrique Lynch Departamento de Historia de la Filosofía, Estética y Filosofía de la Cultura Universidad de Barcelona
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