We are running several workstations with windows 95 and Arev 2.12. The problem that occurs is that sometimes after the Arev program is minimized in the task bar and then is maximized, the display is corrupted. The program is still functional you just can't read it and you have to exit out of Arev and come back in and it is fine. On one workstation, it seems to occur when she sends an Internet e-mail. But that might just be a coincedence. Any help on this would be appreciated.

AFAIK, this is almost always a video card/driver problem. Are all workstations using the same video card?

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No, they are not. Do you think that maybe a video card with more memory on the board would take care of the problem?

AREV's screen display cuts in (in full screen mode) at address B800:0000 for about 4000 bytes up from this address - ensure that your expanded and extended memory management, as well as your video card, and BIOS ROM shadowing, exclude this address range.

Steve

Just alt-Enter and place it into a window. It's something with your video driver.

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This thread reminds me of something that happened to my screen a few years ago. I was programming Arev in a Windows 3.1 environment. When I pressed ALT-Enter to switch from a window to full screen, I got what was expected, a full character-based screen, except that you could see the ghost of a mouse, seemingly in the same place as some of the text characters. If I moved the mouse around, the image remained in the same place. However, if I pressed ALT-Enter again, moved the mouse, then pressed ALT-Enter again, the ghost would reappear in a different place. I didn't think that was possible. Interestingly, that situation triggered a vivid dream that night.

I dreamt that I was sitting at my workstation and a similar thing happened. However, instead of just a mouse cursor, a mouse cursor pointing to the boundary of a fractal appeared. To understand the rest of the dream, it helps to understand something about the topology of the Mandelbrot Set or Julia Sets (see digression below). Anyway, the interesting thing was that instead of the ghost image being still, it responded to my mouse movement. Furthermore, it was a full color image, and not just a faint ghost. Most amazingly, when I moved the mouse cursor, the fractal instantly reparameterized itself in such a way that the mouse cursor was always pointing exactly on the boundary of the fractal. It was similar to if you were to point at the branch of a tree, and then, when you point to another part of the picture, the tree changes shape so that you are always pointing at a branch. What was really neat about it was that it was not simply bending in response to the mouse cursor, but was changing shape completely, alt

hough continuously.

Digression: Instead of describing the theory, I found a site that does a marvelous job, as well as provide an interactive interface for you to view your own images of Mandelbrot and Julia sets. The URL is http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/julia/explorer.html

"Damn," Lothar said when he woke up. "I should have known better than to have extra chiles on my burger, especially when I'm having dinner with the ex-wife."

Now awake, Lothar saw it was 5:30 in the morning. Seeing no point in going back to sleep, he headed to the computer room and put up a pot of coffee. He scan the room and choose a Banana 2000 and flipped it on. After making a network connection, he checked his e-mail. 10 copies of the Good-Times virus warning and a past-due notice on his registry warranty.

"Hmmm," he said to no one in particular. "I wonder how the old CompuServe forum is doing. I haven't been on there in years." Finding his copy of Procomm, Lothar wandered up to forum.

The amber screen blinked "No messages."

The coffee was ready and he poured himself a heaping cup. As he strolled back to the Banana 2000, his cell phone rang.

"Lothar," he answered.

"Thank goodness you answered" came the voice at the other end.

"This better be important. I need my beauty sleep"

"The fate of the free world rests on your actions."

"Look, aren't you being a bit melodramatic for this time of the morning, even for you?"

"This is crutial. Even more important than the day 11689 problem!"

Lother started getting concerned. Nothing was more important than the day 11689 problem except…

"Spill it," Lothar demanded.

"Well," the disembodied voice said, "it's…."

and suddenly the line went dead.

Ever had one of those *good* hair days, only to find that you weren't allowed out….?

Every day is a good hair day.

Actually, I have a toupee, though I prefer to think of it as a gnu set of hair.

Gary Gnu

Easier is to right click your win95 AREV icon, click properties, misc, clear allow screen saver and mark always suspend for good measure.

I once dreamt I was shot 17 times, but I never had a computer dream.

david

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