Re: NTLK Oddities....

From: Bill Davis (newton@ecity.net)
Date: Fri Jan 14 2000 - 02:42:55 EST


On 1/13/2000 4:02 PM, Charles Mangin [mailto:newton@Option8.Com] wrote:

>Oddities...
>Two things: first of all, i met for the first time yesterday a fellow
>newton-user (mp130 in hand) and, upon comparing notes, so to speak,
>attempted to beam him an icon from my mp2000. it didn't work. nothing I
>tried Beaming sent.
>
>going the other direction - 130->2000 worked fine with notes as well as
>icons. any ideas?

Sounds like someone didn't have receive beams turned on in prefs and
someone did...;

>
>second: the caret that normally shows where new text is to be inserted no
>longer shows up anywhere in any apps. it's a little disconcerting...i have
>installed only two new apps that might or might not be the cause:
>noteslider and 'options' from sbm.
>
>anyhoo, any help or pointers would be appreciated.

I think there's a Prefs setting for whether or not the caret is shown.
Perhaps that got changed acccidentally or by one of the new apps.

 - Bill

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