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Mavis Beacon doesn't like TOS 1.4

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From: Steve Whitney
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1989 18:24
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I have TOS 1.4 in my 1 meg 520ST, and I recently purchased "MAvis Beacon
Teaches Typing" because I'm a hunt-and-peck typist.  Anyway, it just won't
run... It creates an "initialized data disk," but when I try to run MAVIS.PRG,
it starts, draws half of the title screen, prints "compression messed up" a few
times (4?), and then croaks with a dialog that says "Fatal error 9006: Decode
Init: error reading DTable."  What I'd like to know is, has anyone on the net
successfully run Mavis on Rainbow TOS (1.4)?  I ran it in low rez without _any_
TSR or desk accessories...

					Thanks,  Steve
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From: swhitney@hprnd.HP.COM (Steve Whitney)
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Subject: Mavis Beacon doesn't like TOS 1.4
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Date: 11 Sep 89 18:24:52 GMT
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