On 12/13/24 03:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 01:53:55AM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
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That was the system config at the original install, and every one of the
subsequent installs, nothing I did with the installer prevented it from
installing orca and brltty. Text only, several variations of graphical have
been tried.
Hm. Difficult to tell, then.
Another clue perhaps: where does t-bird try to save a draft copy of a msg
while editing it?, its driving me crazy with failed to write a draft msg
every 5 minutes.
I'd venture the strong guess that this is a totally unrelated rabbit
hole. In our trade, there are several of them, as you quite certainly
know.
Cheers
Know well since I wrote my first code by looking up the nemonic in the
1802's programming manual, and wrote a commercial preparation program in
1802 hex for an F8 powered automatic station break machine, in 1978.
Memory limited, 4k was $400 for the kit on an S-100 board for a Cosmac
ELF. I learned by making a lot of the code self modifying. That was
crash proof because I paid attention, and was still in many times a day
usage at KRCR-TV in Redding CA when the whole building turned into a
pile ashes in the later 90's. Maximum stack usage was less the $20
bytes. From 79 to 97 is 5 or more times the normal life of tv station
control room equipment. Never did dos or windows on general principles,
went from the original coco with 64k of memory, running os-9 level one
to a coco3 with a 6309 cpu running os9 level 2, to an amiga, to linux in
98. Made them all do unique stuff. I find on this list, a lot of people
who can easily be identified as old farts, we speak our own grammer
school version of English. We've been there, and done that... Welcome
to the club, Tomas
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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