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To whom it may concern,

I'm a new user of Epoch and have a question.  If anyone reading this can answer
it, I'll be most grateful.  If not, perhaps you could refer me to someone else.

I'm running Epoch 4.0 (Patchlevel 2) on an SGI Personal Iris workstation with
IRIX 4.0.1.  I'm trying to set the foreground and background colors for the
text cursor.  The two lines
  (cursor-background "yellow")
  (cursor-foreground "black")
set the colors for the initial edit screen, but not for any additional screens
that are created.  I therefore thought I'd try to change the variable
"epoch::screen-properties", using
  (push '(cursor-foreground "black") epoch::screen-properties)
  (push '(cursor-background "yellow") epoch::screen-properties)
However, whenever I try to create a new screen, I get the error message
  Cursor Background Color must be a string
which is puzzling (to me, anyway), since the actual value of 
"epoch::screen-properties" shows up as
  ((cursor-background "yellow") (cursor-foreground "black") (update t)
   (motion-hints t))
Isn't a quoted sequence of characters considered a string?  What's going on
here?  Any advice you can provide will be greatly appreciated!  Thanks.

Todd Hesla
AHPCRC
1100 Washington Avenue South
Minneapolis MN 55415
(612) 626-8056
hesla@pi9.arc.umn.edu