>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?
Yes. Brand new, even. Didn't have a choice in the matter.
>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.
Oh, Yarn .92 ran just fine. It was just when I tried to do anything
*else* that I ran into problems...whole thing locked up tighter than a
drum... *NOTHING* worked at all.
>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.
Hmm. I wonder if that's the problem here...I'll see if one of the W95
sites around has a newer driver for the video card in this machine. Of
course, that will require me figuring out what card I have... Probably
some proprietary Compaq card.
>Then again, I usually run Yarn on my WfW machine, still. :-)
Never had a bit of trouble on WfW with Yarn.
>> 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. :-)
Hehe. You're probably right. :)
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