On Mon, 18 Aug 1997 12:58:08 -0500,
In article <w0I+zY5fa52T092yn@onr.com>, labrat@onr.com (Michael Gray) wrote:
> I've been a loyal OS/2 user for a while now and have been using
> Yarn/2 since v.84 (at least, I just found a DOS Yarn exe at that
> level.) Since I'm taking a class in intro to C++, I can get
> software at academic pricing and bought MS Visual C++ which includes
> a version of NT 4.0 (all for $110 + tax.) Of course, one of the
> first software I installed was Yarn 95. It runs fine, but the
> colors are way wierd - I've got quoted colors as yellow on
> lightblue, but the colors come out as gray on bright blue. Is this
> typical, or do I need to do some more fine tuning on NT (this seems
> to be the only program that does this)? Seems like I saw a thread
> about this a while back. One thing I didn't like about the DOS
> setup was the window, so I had it come up full screen. Is this a
> factor? Later: nope, changed back to a window and the colors are
> still wierd.
I'm also running NT 4.0. The colors seem to be OK for me, although I
haven't experimented with all the different combinations. The colors
Yarn uses are chosen from a pallet of sixteen colors. You could
change this pallet by right clicking on the window, then selecting
colors. This pallet is also used by the command window to display the
prompt and most dos programs.
On my "Command prompt" properties, the color values are in order
(Red, Green, Blue):
(0,0,0), (0,0,128), (0,128,0), (0,128,128),
(128,0,0), (128,0,128), (128,128,0), (192,192,192),
(128,128,128), (0,0,255), (0,255,0), (0,255,255),
(255,0,0), (255,0,255), (255, 255, 0), (255,255,255)
> What new and wonderful utilities are there for Yarn95? I got the
> soupergui for win95 but it keeps complaining about my score file set
> up by OS2's Vsoup (I think it's the # for comments, but haven't had
> a chance to check that idea out yet.)
No, it isn't the '#' comments. There are a few slight differences
between Vsoup and Souper score files.
1. On Souper, the 'killthreshold' line needs to be placed inside a set
of braces for a newsgroup or 'all'. Also, multiple killthreshold
values may be used, one for each newsgroup. On Vsoup, the
killthreshold line needs to be outside of all braces and applies to
all newsgroups.
2. On Souper, newsgroups must be spelled out. A regular expression is
not acceptable in a newsgroup name.
3. On Souper, the "lines > n" rule is not supported. This could be
replaced by a pattern that will accomplish the same thing.
4. The regular expressions differ slightly between Vsoup and Souper.
If you email me your score file, I'll take a look at it and tell you
what needs to be changed.
> And is this list really as quiet as it seems, only 2 mesages during
> the last week? Kind of makes up for the BMW bike list's 1200 or so.
Yep. It's been that quit for me too. We need a new version of Yarn
so we could have something to talk about.
Let me know if you have any additional questions,
bob
-- Bob Rush | eschew obfuscation bobr@mcs.com | <http://www.mcs.com/~bobr/> |Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.