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Re: CAB Forms - problems with registering

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From: Guy Harrison
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 00:00
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 In article <832889664_OASIS_@zing.demon.co.uk>
  Brian@zing.demon.co.uk (Brian) said:-

> In article <832722032snz@tarn.demon.co.uk>
>  kevin@tarn.demon.co.uk (Kevin Rogers) said:-
>
>>i am using CAB version 1.2, which is a great prog. But when I fill in the registration forms on WWW pages 
>>such as Future Publishing, and The Times, they do not seem to register my 
>>details.
>>I have no trouble accessing web searchers like Yahoo etc - am I doing something wrong?
>>
>
>Yeah... Anyone got details of what does and doesn't work re forms?

Nope - it is erratic! Somehow I managed to register with FutureNet 
using a very early version of Cab - must have been 'cos it was ages 
ago. Anyway, after failing dismally oodles of times I gave up. A 
couple of days later I received an email telling me I had successfully 
registered though the details were different to those I had been 
trying to send - but I used 'em reguardless! I have since been told 
that this is not the way things work so I can only put it down to the 
"Harrison syndrome" - that is, strange and implausible events occur 
with regular monotony. I also belatedly apoligise to whoever didn't 
get their registration! :-)

Anyway, it seems forms have been fixed - though testing is still in 
early stages.

[snip]

>I use an Atari STe, so normally CAB is limited to dithered monochrome;
>HOWEVER if you run Monster (a screen expander) you can get the display
>dithered to 16 colours - not perfect but a big improvement!

I have used bigscrn successfully with NVDI3 and MagiC although it can 
be finnicky. Is Monster available for ftp?



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Guy Harrison

guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk

  
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