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Re: Nota Bene and OS/2



I have the same behavior in Win95 w/ XyWin (both .13 and .12). Perhaps it's
about Windows or the hardware. My screen occasionally does odd things w/
Netscape 4.08 Win, too. And generally the computer (Hitachi laptop) is
persnickety.

At 02:58 AM 27 09 1999 -0700, you wrote:
>spurious duplications of text, eh?
>I've been getting something that fits that description while typing copy in
>xywrite. The last line repeats. The cursor takes up a false position. When
>you start typing again, it leaps back a couple of lines and starts in the
>middle of a word. The duplicated line then disappears. Don't remember that
>running XY4.12 for windows in windows 3.1...only in windows 98. Any
>suggestions? Light of any kind?
>
>
>At 05:15 PM 09/27/1999 +0900, you wrote:
>>John Gordon:
>>
>>>"Flicker" is probably the wrong
>>>word; it's really more of a "video flash" that happens every six
>>>or seven typed words and is manifested as a single line rapid
>>>horizontal blip. I didn't see it with NotaBene.
>>
>>Mmm, that might drive me to NotaBene, or Linux, or Mac OS. Or drink. For
>>me (and Win9x), XyWin certainly does have its irritations, including video
>>oddities (spurious duplications of text, etc.), but I've never seen these
>>video flashes (by any name).
>>
>>If you think it might be the video card, well, unless you're an engineer,
>>an architect, or of course a one-man army facing flamethrower-toting mutant
>>monsters, an entirely adequate replacement video card is pretty cheap these
>>days.
>>:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
>>Peter Evans 
>>
>>
>Tony G.
>
>