Kind of going strictly left to right: Chris Boas, Charlie Boas, Don Kassebaum, Tim Wilson, Keith Sterzing, Mark Thomas, and Sergei Sterzing. Taking the photo was George Wyche and looking on, but unshown, Sarah Boas, about to call it a night working at Conan's.
Tim Wilson was an active member of the Atari computer group here in town until it dwindled below viability. He dug through his computer pile for an Amiga 1200 he got a couple years and has joined ranks with us to see how it goes. WE look upon it as another opportunity to help Tim put that Amiga through its paces as a club program for January (I say).
Don Kassebaum goes under the knife December 4th to insert a form of heart pacemaker/synchronizer. He should be back home and receiving phone calls by Tuesday evening.
Mark Thomas is headed back off to Korea around mid December and will miss the meeting (and elections!).
George Wyche has a trip to Kansas City to complete installation of a scanner update at a high security company --- way loads of fun...
The meat of the meeting was to revive Keith's Miami and YAM. Keith had moved his INTERNET icon from System3.9: to Work1 because the partition was 99.9% full. But upon reboot Miami would not start and when YAM was started there were no emails... at all.. zero.
We found several references to System3.9:Internet in his S:User-startup and changing that to Work1: brought up Miami. YAM was a little tougher. We used SEARCH QUICK FROM "" SEARCH Systems3.9 and located .config, .folder, and .user in the YAM2.4 directory of interest that had the old partition referenced. I say the because Keith never trashes anything, so the lha, the un-lha, and various tries and COPY_OF_ all have YAM2.4 in them. It was funny how the [Config] in YAM2.4 did not show Systems3.9 in any of the various windows. And Mark asked, "Why were they not YAM: as an alias?". Don't know. But after we changeed them all to Work1: all the email became visible again.
While YAM rebuilt the mail indices we set out to delete some of the junk lying around. Systems3.9:Copy_of_Internet AND Copy_2_of_Internet refused to delete saying "Object is in use". We could not find where, so Mark suggested we hold down the 2 mouse buttons, reboot, start without a startup file, and THEN delete from the shell. That was complicated by Keith having a CyberGraphics card. Mark got down behind the A3000 and switched the monitor back to the native monitor output and, wahlah!, we did the deed.
Other cleanup had brought to light a feature of Amiga DOS's TYPE I have never used: TYPE HEX <filename> which showed that one file of interest was an archived file -- we used Unarc on that one; and this 2nd file was ... a Microsoft DOC file. Keith's version of FinalWriter was able to open that one (much to his surprise), but it would have been a lot of work to delete all the garbage in the document, and lose all the formatting of course.
We called it quits after that, but Keith got the idea of how to plow through the files, trashing them as he goes.
The meeting broke up at 9pm. Chris and Charlie walked home. I gave Don a ride to the #1 Bus stop at 43rd and Guadalupe.
