Re: A problem and a request...

From: Kevin Martin (cannon@nic.com)
Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 19:17:33 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 28 May 1997, Dirk A. Loedding wrote:

> First, the problem.
> application. Quite annoying. I ended up digging up a copy of Yarn95,
> v.90, and installing that.

Aha. So the machine is a Win95 machine? I couldn't get Yarn (without
Yarn95) to run on mine, either, although the problem was more a black
screen upon program exit than a solid lockup -- I could hit Alt-F4 and
exit Windows "blind" to reset.

The cure in my case was a new video driver -- the default one that came
with Win95 couldn't cope with the demands that Yarn made on it, modest
though they were. I found out, more or less by accident, that after
replacing that video driver I no longer HAD to use Yarn95.

Then again, I usually run Yarn on my WfW machine, still. :-)

> I've been noticing that more and more and more people are using
> Netscape
> and Explorer to read their news and write their posts to various
> newsgroups...

> Anyone have any work-arounds for the line-wrapping problem, assuming a
> new version is not feasible, for whatever reason?

Flame the hell out of them. It's a good stress-reliever, and nothing they
have to say is worth reading anyway. :-)