Re: NTLK alt.rec. issues

From: Victor Rehorst (victor@gear.torque.net)
Date: Wed Feb 23 2000 - 10:11:37 EST


On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Kenny Song wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 21:06:11 EST JForsterMD@aol.com wrote:
>
> It happened to me once and I had to do a hard reset and restore. I had
> an immediate back up though;-). I always do that when I install any
> packages that alters or patch the Newton OS. In all fairness to Paul,
> alt.rec... is tricky stuff. BTW Paul, I had problems with the latest
> version. It refuses to install, throwing me an error when package is
> loading.
>
> Anyone installed it successfully?

I didn't have a major problem. I deleted the old extention, tapped No
when it asked me if I wanted to remove the data. At this point, Extras
closed on its own, and for some reason Dashboard also closed. I restarted
Dashboard, installed 0.6a7 from NCU, and everything apears to be fine.

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