Some three years ago I attended my first Internet SIG, it was at Fyshwyck and Emil gave a rundown on how to use IRC. It was all a "whole new world" then, and there has been a constant change since then, Emil has always been at the fore bringing the new programs to the group's attention. So it was with some pleasure I was able to attend another Internet SIG chaired by Emil. Here are some points from that meeting. Trevor had solved a problem with Publisher 98 which reported an invalid page fault in Kernel32.dll. There was a procedure to apply and those interested should contact Trevor at tfrew@pcug.org.au . Bill wondered what the acceptable minimum amount of free space on a HDD should be. Given that the HDD was greater than 500 Mbs, it was thought that 50 Mbs would keep you out of trouble. Wolf had sent a message to all and sundry and received a reject notice on one addressee. It is fairly important to read these mail reject notices as they will tell you why the message was rejected/undelivered. There is no need to send the message to the twenty or so addressees again, just the one that didn't get it. Warrick was still having trouble with his connecton procedure using the script supplied by TIP. Emil said he would provide a "how to" of a script installation that worked, so long as you followed it word for word. If anyone would like these instructions, e-mail me as I think I now have them. Marion also had scripting problems, and wanted a copy of Emil's procedure. Elizabeth wanted to install Windows98, saw that 200 Megs of HDD was necessary, and having only 76 Megs available, thought Uninstaller was the way to go. It was explained that Uninstaller only works on programs that you install after Uninstaller has been installed. Some discussion followed on deleting priograms from W95, Regclean is a necessary program to rid your system of all signs of a program. "It's on every magazine CD" except the CDs on the magazines I buy. There was even more discussion on W98, and it was thought that unless you really liked MS stuff, there was probably not much point to this new addition to MS's livery, although others may disagree. There were several other areas of discussion, networking for one showed that our collective wisdom on this matter was somewhat wanting. Marion was after 2 x Ethernet2000 cards, apparantly an older card. If you can help, contact Marion at wely@pcug.org.au If you are going to install Paint Shop Pro, install Version 4 as it does not expire, whereas version 5 does. Try this in W95 ... Say you have a Dialogue Box you want to print.......Alt+Prt Screen...... Open MS Word.... File | Paste Special and select what you you want , and there you have the Dialogue box in a word doco, very useful for making how to Documents. Thanls to Warrick for that tip. After the round table discussion, we adjourned to the training room for a demostration of the fully blown Agent News/mailer client. While this was going on, Emil downloaded CD Streamer as mentioned in Coffee and Chat a couple of meetings ago. That was that for another Monday, feel free to come along the Internet Sig and have a talk and cup of tea or coffee. It is on every second Monday and the next one will be 6 Jul 98, and it starts 10:00am Owen -- ****************************************************** Coffee & Chat Page, inluding archives of past meetings http://www.pcug.org.au/~rcook/c&c.htm These Archives are now searchable. ******************************************************
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