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Date:         Sat, 10 Oct 92 20:01:20 IST
From:         PARKINSN@SSCVAX.CIS.MCMASTER.CA
Subject:      Re: the laptop keyboard and gray+ in Ibid
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The "New and Improved Features" booklet I got with Ibid 1.1 gives the
laptop equivalent of Ctrl + Gray+ as Ctrl + U
The laptop assignments are listed on page 10 of this document and I
vaguely recall from my laptop days that they work (I actually ran Ibid
briefly _without_ a hard drive!).
Ted Parkinson
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
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Date:         Fri, 16 Oct 92 10:45:17 EDT
From:         "Paul J. Bodin" <pjb3@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Increasing mem for NB4 files
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Mark D. Szuchman writes:

> ... The same settings in 4.0's NBSTART.INT, however, give me pretty
> much the same mem for text files (318Kb), but locks the keyboard when printing
> and prints to disk only.  I have a D drive as a ram disk where the EDITORx.OVR
> files are placed.  The following are the settings in in 3.1's STARTUP.INT, and
> I would appreciate any feedback on getting them amended to work with 4.0.
>
> The STARTUP.INT settings (in expanded mode):
> <<SV499,<<OF7,7>><<PL64,66,60>>>>
> BC load help
> BC savec 0
> BC lddict mainalph.dct
> BC unload 1,2,3,6,7
> BC C:
> BC cd C:\NB
> BC dir
> BC BC BC BC CC

This is, unfortunately, a good example of the new overlay management
in NB 4.0 interfering with memory management techniques that had
become common practice among some NB 3.X users.  NB 4.0's overlays
interact in a much more complex fashion than was the case with NB 3.X,
and furthermore they are modified at the time of system startup in a
manner that is dependent upon the status of other system variables.
They cannot simply be loaded and unloaded as we could do before.  Once
you have unloaded all those overlays to free up more memory I know of
no way to reliably load and use the printer driver--the program must be
restarted to do this.  If the overlay management commands are in
NBSTART.INT then you will never be able to use the printer drivers!

Perhaps some of the wiser heads among us will eventually be able to
figure out how to accomplish these memory miracles with NB 4.0, too,
but until then we will be stuck.

Please note that now both Orbis and Ibid can be loaded at the same
time without these memory gyrations (unlike NB 3.1).  Note also that
these memory and overlay functions have never been documented by
Dragonfly/NBI--these techniques have taken advantage of *undocumented*
properties of the XyWrite editor engine.  The fact that they no longer
work the same way with NB 4.0 does not remove any *documented* features.

___________________________________________________________________________
Paul J. Bodin                         Internet: pjb3@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
Union Theological Seminary               smail: 435-52nd Street
(718) 439-3549                                  Brooklyn, NY 11220
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Date:         Tue, 13 Oct 92 09:45:53 EDT
From:         "William H. TeBrake" <TEBRAKE@MAINE.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Timetabling by computer
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Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene

Leon Litvack and Mervyn Bennum ask about dedicated timetabling software.
About a year ago, when it appeared that I would become responsible for
scheduling in my department, I ordered and received a shareware program
called The Classroom Scheduler.  Because I subsequently avoided being
assigned the scheduling task, I never did more than confirm that it
appears to work as advrtised.  The cost was a mere $3.69 plus shipping.
Source: The Software Labs, 3767 Overland Avenue No. 112,
Los Angeles, California 90034-6311; Telephone, (310) 559-5456, toll
free in the US is (800) 359-9998; Fax: (310) 559-3405.  I hope this
helps.
-- Bill TeBrake, History, U. of Maine, Orono, Maine USA
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Date:         Mon, 12 Oct 92 11:48:21 -0400
From:         "Cora A. Diamond" <cad2m@FARADAY.CLAS.VIRGINIA.EDU>
Subject:      Folio VIEWS
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Responding to an an enquiry about Folio VIEWS, a search program for
electronic texts.  I have InteLex's electronic texts of Locke,
Berkeley, and Hume, together with Folio VIEWS, and have always found
the latter to be excellent: it is accurate, thorough, and as fast as
you can ask.

Tony Woozley
cad2m@faraday.clas.virginia.edu
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Date:         Sun, 11 Oct 92 17:56:40 EDT
From:         Robert Braham <RMB@CUNYVMS1>
Subject:      Re: Lingua and Trident VGA
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Roy Harris writes:

> ... I got nothing but a screen full of garbage (mainly lines
> of a single character, one of the box corner characters, as I
> recall). Remembering that someone had said that Lingua was
> reported not to be compatible with the Trident VGA chip, I erased
> all files in my NB4 directory and reinstalled NB4 without Lingua
> (and also without Orbis and Ibid). ...
> ... To use
> Lingua, it appears that I will have to junk my Trident card. But

Roy, I have a Trident card (8900, w/ 1MB video ram), and have
been using a late beta Lingua w/ no problems.  Do you
invoke nb w/ "NB /b"? (or, as I just found out from
Paul [surprise, surprise], if you invoke it _once_
w/ "nb /b+", then from then on you don't need
the /b switch.

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Date:         Wed, 7 Oct 92 12:03:26 ADT
Comments:     <07OCT92.13024969.0112.MUSIC@UNB.CA>
From:         GLB0000 <GLB@UNB.CA>
Subject:      Has 4 reached Canada? Again
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene

Now that NBI has apparently neared the "end" of the upgrade
mailings, I was wondering if anyone in Canada has received
their copy yet?

Gary Bowden
A patient, but increasingly irritated, subscriber.
glb@unb.ca
From: AGNEWHL@GWUVM.BITNET (Hugh Agnew)
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Subject: Re: NBLINGUA & Toshiba Cyrillic
Date: 13 Oct 92 14:37:42 GMT
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              13 Oct 92 09:59:53 -0400 from <mrh3b@FARADAY.CLAS.VIRGINIA.EDU>

This won't be much use, except in the "try-try-again" mode; but I did
tell the list that I had successfully printed Cyrillic (Bulgarian, actually)
on my Toshiba 301 Expresswriter, which is supposed to imitate the 321,
using Lingua.  I simply installed the Toshiba 24-pin printers as Lingua
printers, and then when I activated a printer from the group (it appears
to a complete idiot like me that the drivers have a group of Toshiba 24-pin
printers included), I chose the one which was, I believe, Toshiba 341-351.
It printed, on the same page, the first sentence of Svejk, plus a long
biliographic reference in Cyrillic, with no problems.  (It was slow, it
first put in all the Czech diacriticals in the Svejk section, then the
text; and for the Cyrillic it took several passes, but it worked).

I apologize for not understanding HOW this all worked; I was happy THAT it
worked...

Sincerely,  Hugh Agnew
AGNEWHL@GWUVM.BITNET
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Date:         Fri, 16 Oct 92 10:07:00 GMT
From:         JAE2@VAXA.YORK.AC.UK
Subject:      RE: text width
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene

Ive got this problem too - for every typeface - though it isn't consistent.
NBI are looking into it now.
What seems to be happening is that NB4 is measuring offset by point size(!)
and not in numbers.
Are other people having this problem?  (It affects centring, of course, too.)
Anyway Steve at NBI is happy to help.
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Date:         Mon, 12 Oct 92 19:22:57 IST
From:         "Itamar Even-Zohar, Porter Chair of Semiotics" <B10@TAUNIVM>
Subject:      Re: Orbis problems
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene

Re: Orbis problems

(1) NOT in Orbis is simply NOT. On the other hand, AND is
no longer needed. Thus:

takala not itamar not even not zohar will search 'takala' only.

takala itamar even zohar will search all.

I've not tried

takala not (itamar even zohar) -- that one would be best

However, if you use

takala not itamar even zohar

Orbis will treat only the first element after NOT as excepted.


(2) Retrieval. I know you can define and go to Alternative window.
But this causes troubles when I return... In view of the existence
of such elements as 'save search' etc., I presume that the final
release would have a special option for saving the searched items.

Itamar
From: USERTANC@UBCMTSG.BITNET (Janice Tanche)
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Subject: It has arrived!
Date: 16 Oct 92 23:12:46 GMT
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NB4 came in my mail today -- though not as I ordered it.  At any rate,
it is here and I've installed it and am looking around at it.  Don't have
much to say so far.  The documentation is a real disappointment though.
Hopefully the rest of you will get yours in Monday's mail.


Janice Tanche,
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Date:         Tue, 13 Oct 92 13:04:39 EDT
From:         Joel Lidov <JBLQC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Subject:      NB4 quirks, questions
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A buch of questions and comments:
1)  I received NB/Lingua/IBID/IBID+ and installed it without installing
lingua.  I have an HGC+ card.  On the SET menu I changed the symbol set
to the HGC+ version with italics.  All went fine.  Then I did something
exiting (I forgot to use the menu), using the ESC key, that cause the
HGC fonts to remain, but the modes to get lost.  Indeed, I did something
that so corrupted the program that it won't load properly and finally
froze the computer.  I did a partial reinstallation, but obviously left
out some key element:  the program ran, but if I reSET the HGC fonts,
the modes came out all wrong:  Bold displays as the empty font garbage,
etc., and could not be reset.  Finally I reinstalled completely, and all
is well.BUT WHAT did I do, and how can I avoid doing it again?  What is
the file I corrupted?  If I knew I could at least make a backup.  It
appears not to be NB.COM or .EXE.

2) The compose key keeps telling me that Lingua is required, and F1
doesnot bring up a chart after I press it.  Is this peculiar to versions
that have an uninstalled Lingua?

3)Where do you set default values for font family, etc.  I see that they
are in the NBCUSTOM.SET file, but how did they get there?

4) Is it necessarily the case that on a dot-matrix printer you can only
get draft mode by putting an obscure delta into the file, which you must
find and remove for a good-quality printing.

I see that there is an empty NBSTART.INT file; I assume this is load
last and that one could put interesting things, including defaults.
Anyone know anything about this?

5)  Intallation apparently reads your 3.x INIT file; it copied over d
NBBD= etc. info to NBCUSTOM, which apparently confused the IBID
installation.  I did find that I had to copy the top line from my 3.1
PICK.MEN  to the new NBIBD.MEN to get it to recognize the exising
biblio.  (They are easily edited).

6)I find the new menu system takes some getting used to (and I haven't
yet).  On monochrome the overlapping menus are distractingly busy.  But
my one big complaint so far is that a directory disappears every time
you use the directory menu; you can make it sit stably in a window only
if you first put there with F9 dir or G on the menu, and then restrict
yourself to F9 commands.  Has anyone found a way to make it stable?  I
realize that in many respects I am still trying to "think" in 3.x and
have not adapted my habits to do what 4.0 does advantageously--it
obviously does a lot.

Thanks for your patience with this.

      Joel Lidov
      Queens College CUNY.
      JBLQC@CUNYVM
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Date:         Fri, 9 Oct 92 00:05:30 EDT
From:         georges <TISSOT@UOTTAWA>
Subject:      Re: Bibliographic programs for NotaBene users
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene

Has anyone an opinion on Zyindex or Folio as databases and/or search
and index? Tissot@Uottawa
From: rkelly3@MACH1.WLU.CA (robert kelly F)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene
Subject: Re: NB4.0 and Pc-Tools
Date: 16 Oct 92 17:17:45 GMT
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Just a reminder that the backslash character does odd things to various
systems.  While reading this message I was suddenly looking at a screen full
of enough dotted and slashed and umlauted vowels to keep our Scandinavian
colleagues busy for weeks.  The backslash had become a control character
which told my VT 220 on Unix to switch to some non-ascii mode.

--
From: LAVENDA@MSUS1.BITNET
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Subject: Re: misc
Date: 16 Oct 92 21:54:00 GMT
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One or two bits of help (maybe) for Jerry Walsh. Lingua does not support
Postscript as yet. NB4 does (beautifully, I might add). If your TI emulates
an HP-II, IIP, or III, you can choose to install the HP drivers for Lingua.
If you are only printing in Roman characters, Lingua has no problem with
Postscript, by the way. But, I don't think it will display Hebrew properly
if a *Lingua* printer driver is not installed. Or, you may have forgotten
to press Ctr-R, which shifts over to right to left text.

Robert Lavenda      lavenda@msus1
From: B10@TAUNIVM.BITNET (Itamar Even-Zohar,
              Porter Chair of Semiotics)
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Subject: Re: misc
Date: 16 Oct 92 17:58:44 GMT
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Re: mixing Courier (or fixed font) with Hebrew?

Why should you need to do that when you have got the excellent
FrankRuehl fonts? You would need fixed Hebrew fixed fonts, too,
to make such printing acceptable. Actually, Gutman created fixed
David fonts for a previous pckage, but I am not sure they are
available now.

By the way, has anybody received the David fonts from NBI? (NBI
regretfully called these fonts Doved, to avoid legal conflicts
with the designer of the original David fonts, Itamar David.
I have written them that Itamar David does not object to
this version, but the name Doved got hold.

To me, the trouble with Lingua is not that Courier + Hebrew
are not currently supported, but that the new NB drivers are
INACCESSIBLE! We have all been able to produce drivers for
a variety of fonts, on the fly, as it were, esp. with Lodestar.
Now much of the information is encrypted (I don;t know where
the substitution tables hide), the width tables look sheer
madness to me (incredible high numbers, at least for Hebrew, Greek, etc.),
and if you wish to have new fonts printable, or a new driver,
or modify things as before, you must ask NBI! And if you ask
NBI, would they have time for such trifles? Ergo: Give us back
our freedom of customization, this must be the demand.

Itamar
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Date:         Fri, 16 Oct 92 06:57:00 EDT
From:         Peter MacDonald <PMACDON@UNC.BITNET>
Subject:      NB4.0 and Pc-Tools
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene

After installing all of NB4, Lingua, and ORBIS, I found that
I can no longer use the EDIT function on PC-TOOLS.  The computer
locks up.  This happends also when I try to use MAP to map out
the memory usage on the hard disk.  I have reinstalled PC-TOOLS
but still have the problem.  These fail me when I try to use them
on either of my hard disks.

I have a 286, 640K RAM, DRDOS 6.0, no TSR's loaded.  Here is my
config.sys and AUTOEXEC.BAT.
SHELL=C:\DRDOS\COMMAND.COM C:\DRDOS /P /E:1024
DEVICE=c:\drdos\ansi.sys
BREAK=ON
buffers=8
FILES=28
FCBS=4,4
FASTOPEN=512
LASTDRIVE=I
HISTORY=ON, 256, OFF, OFF, OFF
COUNTRY=001,,D:\DRDOS\COUNTRY.SYS
-------------------
@ECHO OFF
SET PATH=C:\;c:\boxer;C:\DRDOS;c:\pctools;c:\batch;c:\zip;c:nb4
SET boxer=-dC:\BOXER
SET pctools=c:\pctools
SET pctv=/bw
PROMPT $p$g
VERIFY OFF
COPY c:\com\command.com c:\DRDOS\ > NUL
c:\hercules\hgc full save > NUL
c:\drdos\mode lpt1:=com1
c:\drdos\mode com1:9600,E,7,1,P
c:\drdos\mode con rate=32 delay=1
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Peter MacDonald
Technical Support Manager
Acquisitions Dept.
Davis Library
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
pmacdon@unc.bitnet
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Thank you. -- Peter m
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Date:         Thu, 8 Oct 92 01:34:36 EDT
From:         "RANDALL D. WIGHT" <wight@OBU.ARKNET.EDU>
Subject:      NB4 arrival
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Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene

NB4 arrived today in southern Arkansas, a event which prompts the following
questions.

1. I use primarily a 386SX laptop.  The trouble is that the uncompressed
screen setting fails to give me that last three to four lines of text, help
overlays, and menus.  When I type to the bottem of the screen, the
characters disappear behind the horizon, reappearing if several hard
returns are entered.  With regard to the menus and help screens, I have no
access whatsoever to the hidden lines.  None of the preceding occurs when I
use NB4 on the XT attached to the printer.  Suggestions?

2. When I attempt, unsuccessfully, to use the thesaurus, the program
tries to access an overlay in my Fastback directory.  Again, suggestions?

Thanks!


Randall D. Wight
Department of Psychology
Ouachita Baptist University
Arkadelphia, AR  71998-0001

(501) 245-5107
wight@obu.arknet.edu

207 Forrest Park Drive
Arkadelphia, AR  71923-2812
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Date:         Sun, 11 Oct 92 16:57:00 EDT
From:         ITF@PSUVM
Subject:      problems with nb4
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene

Well Paul, I reinstalled nb4, and could print in Hebrew and Cyrillic.  Once.
After that, every time I go into NB4, I give one command, and then the whole
thing freezes up.  I think this issue arose in the last few weeks, but I
can't remember the answer (if there was one).  Oh, and by the way, the
installation does prompt me for nbl_hp2.nb on lingua disk 3, something I
don't have.  What is going on here?  I am furious with this whole process.

Allen (itf@psuvm.psu.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 15 Oct 92 17:58:00 CST
From:         LAVENDA@MSUS1.BITNET
Subject:      Report on Indexing
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I've been checking out the indexing routines in 4.0, which were not in
the betas I evaluated. I'm happy to report that they work more rapidly
and more elegantly than 3.0. However, users should be aware of the
following issue. There seems to be size limit to the number of files
NB can index at one time. When we indexed the second edition of our
cultural anth text--about 1.2 meg--with NB3, we had to break it up
into three sets of chapters and then merge them together in ways that]
I prefer to forget. I hd hoped that 4.0 would have solved that problem.
But no. I tried indexing the entire book at once, and the indexer choked.
I had to use exactly the same three .LNK files that I had used with 3.0.
(This may be a memory limitation. I may try to set the sort default to
5 characters rather than 40. I did try 20, but that may not be enough.
It may even be a DOS problem).

The good news is that NB4 makes generating indexes in chunks exceptionally
easy. Beyond that, using column define and the upper case command should
allow almost instantaneous capitalization of the initial letter (assuming
that your style manual requires that). So, I'm very pleased by the improve-
mets in the indexing routines.

Rob Lavenda           lavenda@msus1
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Date:         Sun, 11 Oct 92 20:33:47 EDT
From:         "Paul J. Bodin" <pjb3@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Problems with nb4 and Lingua printing
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Allen (itf@psuvm.psu.edu) writes:

> Thanks Paul for answering, but I don't quite understand what you are
> suggesting.  How does F2 bring up the default printer?  And where do I set
> up the default Lingua printer to overide the default Nota Bene printer
> (which is the same printer, just different fonts I guess.  I also am not
> sure where Lingua picks up that I have a Microsoft cartridge (the old "z"
> cartridge) in my printer.  ANy help would be appreciated.

F2 does not bring up the default printer, it *sets* the default
printer from the Activate Installed Printers menu.  You set up the
Lingua printer from the same menu: F3 edits the driver, and F2 makes
it the default.  The menu is really rather straightforward.

The Lingua driver is not related to the Nota Bene driver at all--they
are not interchangeable.  I am sure that they share some elements, but
it is disastrous to confuse them.  To print Lingua files one *must*
use the Lingua driver.  It must either be activated anew each time you
want to print, or made the default so that it loads automatically at
program launch.

The Lingua drivers currently do not support any font cartridges, and
there is no present mechanism for making them do so.  To make the
various tables manageable, only the Lingua fonts provided by NB are
supported by the Lingua drivers.  Thus the only fonts available when
printing Lingua files are the printer's internal fonts (Courier and
Line Printer for the HPII printers) and the Roman, Cyrillic, Greek and
Hebrew fonts supplied with Lingua.

___________________________________________________________________________
Paul J. Bodin                         Internet: pjb3@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
Union Theological Seminary               smail: 435-52nd Street
(718) 439-3549                                  Brooklyn, NY 11220
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Date:         Sat, 10 Oct 92 14:25:00 EDT
From:         ITF@PSUVM
Subject:      Problems with nb4 and Lingua printing
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene


During installation of Lingua I was told that the program could not find a
file named nbl_hp2.nb.  Now when I type in Cyrillic and Hebrew, I cannot get
my HP-IIP to print in either language.  I have installed and reinstalled the
printer (but not the Microsoft cartridge - that is what I was trying to do
when I got the missing file message).  Any suggestions?

Allen (itf@psuvm.psu.edu)
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From:         "Marvyn R. Harris" <mrh3b@FARADAY.CLAS.VIRGINIA.EDU>
Subject:      NB4 and cursor speed
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Has anyone had a problem when using NB4 with a run-away cursor?
The repeat rate is so fast on moving the bar cursor on the menus
that it cycles 4 or 5 times through the whole list of choice
before I can get my finger of the down-arrow key.

Fortunately, I have an OmniKey/PLUS keyboard which allows me to
reset the rate with F14 plus a second function key to set the
repeat rate. I am also aware that it can be reset with the DOS
MODE command. But has NBI provided a way to set the repeat rate
of one's preference permanently within NB?

Roy Harris - University of Virginia
mrh3b@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU, mrh3b@Virginia.Bitnet