Re: running xy 3+ under windows xp - aarrgghhh!

["Adel Darwish" adel.darwish@xxxxxxxx]

Robert
I have just tried your very long default setting for cursor and to increase
number of lines on screen.
No effect !!!!
A
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Holmgren" 
To: 
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 8:28 PM
Subject: Re: running xy 3+ under windows xp - aarrgghhh!


> ** Reply to message from "Adel Darwish"  on
Sun,
> 22 Jun 2003 17:56:25 +0100
>
> Now, there, you see? Your STARTUP doesn't say "BC cur=118";
> it says "BC default cr=118" (as suspected).
>
> P.S. I've actually been reading your stuff for years, Adel. The Halabja
> pieces stand out in recent memory. That phrase about Hussein being "our
SOB"
> is surely a conscious echo of LBJ's famous comment about Nicaragua's
Samoza:
> "He may be a bastard, but he's our bastard" (a comment promiscuously
attributed
> to FDR, Truman, and Churchill; and erroneously targeted at Ngo Dinh Diem
and
> Marcos -- hell, I've even overheard my wife say it to our kids!). I have
some
> great photos of Don Rumsfeld cozening Saddam at an airshow in the 80s, arm
in
> arm, pointing up at the vapor trails of those mag-ni-fi-cent American war
> planes Rumsfeld was trying to sell Iraq... all impish conspiratorial
smiles,
> dreaming no doubt of the crops and the Kurds they could dust. What a
bunch.
>
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> Robert Holmgren
> holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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