Re: Subject: Re: XYWRITE digest 2483

["Patricia M. Godfrey" PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx]

Robert Holmgren wrote:
> The fact that this particular ACRORD32.EXE is in a TEMP directory is, I think, telling.
Yes, of course that's not the real file. I said I had the fully
qualified path to the real one
(c:\Progar~1\Adobe\acroba~2.0\reader\acrord32.exe dated 11/03/03; the
last version that will run on 98). But you say I can and should leave
PDF|PS pointing to Ghostscript, so that's OK.
> I don't understand what you're saying. CLIP.EXE has nothing to do with
> T-bird.
I'm using Clip to copy and past blocks of text between Tbird and Xy. I
frequently write my e-mails in Xy, then copy them to Tbird's compose
screen. And I copy almost all list posts from the Tbird Inbox to Xy
files, so I can read and search them here, without having to go online
(something that, for reasons of ancient and poor infrastructure, is very
tedious)
> Does it *always* happen?
NO. In fact, it had stopped after I got the latest version of Clip. This
was the first time it had happened since then (hence my exasperated
imprecation). And with the earlier versions of clip, there was no rhyme
nor reason to the errors: sometimes it would happen when copying a tiny
block of text, and then I'd copy a large block without problems. On this
particular occasion, I had XYWWEB.REG and my January posts file up in Xy
(06jan.txt was 378,261 bytes at that time) plus a third, untitled file
into which I had copied the Not found lines, then run encode on them.
As I said, I can work around it, since it doesn't usually cause a crash,
just a failure to paste, and I have another plain-text editor into which
I can call clip.txt, then use the Widnows clipboard directly to paste
into Tbird (or Merge clip.txt into the Xy file if going the other way)
But the flakiness of Redmond Rubbish is really maddening. You do A under
circumstances B and get C. Then the next time you do A under
circumstances B you get Z! It makes mice feet of .the basic principles
of science.
> What's the date of MSVBVM60.DLL?
2/23/04 8:42 p.m.
> Of UNICOWS.DLL? I'd consider replacing *all* copies of UNICOWS.DLL with the one in U2UTILS.EXE dated 12/7/04...
Done. There were two other copies, one in C:\Program Files\Adobe and one
in C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player (an app I use maybe once every
three years)
> Also the latest T-bird (v1.5 is the Firefox I have); early versions of Firefox did have a lot of
> bugs.
Tbird is version 1.7.6: 2005031711, dated 3/17/05
> This is a lucidly insightful Subject line, isn't it?
Yes, well I wondered if I shouldn't bite the bullet and change it, but
since you hadn't done so in replying, I figured "who am I to cavil?"

Thank you--for everything.

Patricia M. Godfrey