FOR files

[Ora Avni]

If it is of any help to you, I work on a Dell Pentium (not pentium II) 233,
and on a Dell 486. Neither has ever given me any trouble with Ibid.

Have you talked to the Dell people? I find them pretty helpful.

Ora Avni

At 10:27 AM 4/9/98 +0000, you wrote:
>I'm having trouble with Ibid. (NB45a+W95) on my new pentium II Dell
>machine. When I try to generate an ordinary bibliography Ibid.
>reports "No FOR files saved" which obviously is not the case.
>On the contrary, Ibid. can generate any kind of bibliography on my
>other computer (an HP Vectra, Pentium 233).
>I've sent my .FOR files to John Oldham from NBNY but he didn't find
>anything wrong in them and asked for my startup files instead to
>prepare a double-boot set. It's becoming a sort of ritual answer from
>NY to suggest double-booting when W95 is concerned.
>Wonder if someone on the List can give me some help. Windows 95 is
>really naughty on the Dell machine. Now and then I get my NBxxx.DAT
>files modified unexpectedly by W95, that is, changed to "Read only
>files", and Ibid. cannot access them. I have to go into Explorer,
>Properties, uncheck the box on each .DAT files, and restart NB.
>Thanks for any suggestion.
>Dr. Enrique Lynch
>Dept. Historia de la Filosofia
>Estetica y Filosofia de la Cultura
>Universitat de Barcelona
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>e-mail: ly...@trivium.gh.ub.es
>Fax: 34-3-417-9037
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Ora Avni
Department of French
Yale University
New Haven, CT 06518

[Dr. Enrique Lynch]

On Mon, 13 Apr 1998 Ora Avni wrote:

> If it is of any help to you, I work on a Dell Pentium (not pentium II) 233,
> and on a Dell 486. Neither has ever given me any trouble with Ibid.
>
> Have you talked to the Dell people? I find them pretty helpful.
>
> Ora Avni

Thanks Ora for your suggestion.
However, Pieter J.J. Botha found a solution to this problem:
editing the NBIBID.HLP by deleting the full stop in the string
|se char.|
in Expanded Mode does the miracle. Ibid. can now access the .FOR
files normally. Don't ask me why...

Dr. Enrique Lynch
Departamento de Historia de la Filosofía, Estética y Filosofía de la Cultura
Universidad de Barcelona