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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

I booted the other cmoputer and I am looking at the mail menu in BL2.  It 
is not identical - Q instaed of 7.  And 3k instead of instructions to type 
K to keep meessages (we could not figure out whether to type k, or 3 then 
k). (Sorry, very bad telnet lag so I can't see what I type).  

I find 3k. on a separate line makes more sense.  In BL3 I would have typed 
just 'k' to keep messages, and just H for help (not 6H).

In BL2 on that computer when I type 6, I see 6 appear onscreen. 
In BL3 I did not see the 6 appear.  Same monitor.  That was yesterday.

Today I see the 6. I have a witness, who also tried typing, that the 
numbers did not appear on the screen yestrday (second time I booted BL3).  
They also did not appear (no witness) the first time I booted.

(
First time I booted, and typed startx, and a, I did not see any a appear.  
Second time that worked.   On the other computer all of this worked on the 
first try.

The computer where it all works is a PII AMD K6, the other one has a 
genuine Intel P133.  I would try on my Cyrix but it is formatted with 
DR-DOS.  

Other people have reported needing to boot twice to get something to work.
I think it was Xvesa.

There seems to be some video prolem - missing curssor in rxvt, missing 
numbers in mail, missing letters in startx, need to reboot to get video to 
work with Xvesa.

We can try formatting a test drive (without DDR-DOS) in a computer with 
Cyrix cpu, or another Intel.  Let me know what to try BL3 on.  Sould I It 
is hard to ttest whent he problem is not reproducible on the second (ro 
third) boot.

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > The reason I thought nothing was happening when I 
> > pressed 1-6 or Q in the mail menu on the second BL3 
> > computer is that the numbers and Q do not appear when 
> > I press them, from that menu, on both a mono and a color 
> > VGA monitor.  
> 
> The mail menu script is exactly the same in BL2.  Did you 
> have the same problem in BL2?
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
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