Re: CLIP's test of virtue -- and memory immunization ?

[Si Wright xywrite4@xxxxxxxx]

1) Re: CLIP's test of virtue / XP lag

Robert--

First, I'm extremely grateful that CLIP exists, and if
it's your baby, it's a beautiful baby, really, and I
wouldn't touch a character of its code.

Q: Are you saying it always, repeatedly crashed when
you tried to Paste near end of file? This was
something you could reproduce, after you restarted
Editor? Xy crashed over and over? What's the source
of the pasted text, a web browser? .... When > you
say you "moved a few bits" I hope you're not referring
to bits in the Clip program(s)! Please don't do
that...]

A: Yes, it's reproducible. I just did it again with
the only open programs being this web page and Xy4.
The only thing in the clipboard now was a 10-digit
telephone number (which pasted fine at the top of the
file next time around), and it still crashed.

Q: > Do you have a lot of different documents open?
What's the size of the document that was having the
 problem?

A: The file I was pasting to is 7.4 kb. Another
document of about 1.5 MB was open, too, but I'd never
had any trouble with it before.

I should have said bytes, not bits; I was pasting
text. It was from a web page but it didn't have any
funny characters when I pasted it near the top of the
file.

>

Q: Do this for me: go to the command line, type:
 VA/NV $M+6 and hit the carriage return. ... There
are easy antidotes, you can permanently immunize
yourself...
 Are you using the CLIP.VBS version, or the CLIP.EXE
version?

A: I'm using CLIP.EXE. The memory variable you wanted
= 7. If you have an easy immunization for memory
problems, I'd love to insert it.

Q: > Re "twitchy": you're talking about the
> hesitant/jumpy cursor action in XP
> (only)? Use Win2K! (he said, helpfully) Are you
> running SP2? It reduces the
> problem, a lot.

A: No can do on Win 2K, because iTunes is XP only. I
put a Win98 partition in my last computer for Xy4 (and
just about everything else), but this computer has
flummoxed me because there are no drivers written for
Win98 for frills like the display, the mouse, the
soundcard....

I'm holding off on SP2 because it has serious
conflicts with a music program I use, and I'm hoping
two incompetent media giants--Sony and M$--will get
around to fixing it. And I could not agree with you
more on the bloatware problem.

In another post, Morris Krok mentioned Alt-Enter.
That's running XY4 in a window, which is how I have
the Properties set up, and that's where the cursor
twitches.

                 Jon Pareles



		
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