[net.micro.amiga] Screwup'd's

S7YLF4%IRISHMVS@WISCVM.WISC.EDU@caip.RUTGERS.EDU (02/24/86)

From: S7YLF4%IRISHMVS.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU

(Didn't respond separately in CCs since didn't want you to end up
with two copies.)

1) To Mike Meyer <mwm%ucbopal@berkeley.EDU>:  That doesn't seem to
   be the problem.  Immediately after I set the date, it still does
   not give me the correct one.  My disks are such a mishmash of
   Workbench 1.0 and 1.1...could it be that I'm using a 1.0 Preferences
   with a 1.1 Workbench, or vice versa?  (I always boot up with
   the 1.1 Kickstart.)  That shouldn't affect the date command,
   though; and date still doesn't work.  This is true of all the
   disks I've tried it on, so it's not an isolated error.
2) To LMC-TRANS@GUNTER-ADAM.ARPA (sorry, can't remember your name):
   That's strange, as I've never had to go through such a routine
   before.  You see, I'm saving my documents _as_text_, and re-
   reading them in, as I am uploading them as messages to a local
   BBS which uses wordwrap (hence cannot use ed, because it inserts
   CRs after each line).  Now apparently Textcraft defaults its own
   margins to 5 and 75 or whatever, and I change those to 0 and 80
   to fit what they will look like on the BBS...but doesn't give me
   the extra neat margin anymore.  Well, I'll try what you suggested.
   If it works I will be in your debt.

{In case anyone local to Notre Dame heard me throwing things around
last night and swearing very loudly, forgive me.  It took my roommate
awhile to calm me down.  8^)}

nj, the Somewhat Annoying <s7ylf4%irishmvs@wiscvm.wisc.EDU>

cosell@BBN-PROPHET.ARPA@caip.RUTGERS.EDU (02/24/86)

From: Bernie Cosell <cosell@BBN-PROPHET.ARPA>

In fact you are running into a little publicized compatibility
problem.  It appears that Workbench 1.0 doesn't know how to set
the date for Kickstart 1.1.  Thus, *NOTHING* you do will result
in the date being set if you are trying to run in that configuration.
I pushed on it a fair bit and as odd as it seems, this is the *only*
odd behavior I was able to uncover.  [to see this more clearly,
fire up a CLI window and just try "DATE <whenever>" "DATE" and you'll
see that the date doesn't `take'].

I'm a little surprised that this never got publicized *especially*
to the dealer: folks who got their Amigas with 1.0 software discovered
that most of the neat new programs (DPAINT was the one I hit) 
*required* Kickstart 1.1, so dealers happily supplied that.  Mostly
they did *not* worry much about giving you Workbench 1.1 to go
with it (they *would*, but they didn't know that they *should*).

In sum, if you have Kickstart 1.1, and don't have Workbench 1.1 to
go with it, *go back and get an updated workbench disk!!*.

  /Bernie

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