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Hi Wolf,

Will you hate is so much, one day, that you decide to build a Linux 
version of SL? That would be a great step for a few of us to finally 
leave it, the "OS". Politics! Autarkie, and open source stuff (instead 
of spyware) for a modern and free world, just what we need. :-)

73, Stefan

Am 10.03.2017 13:36, schrieb Wolfgang Büscher:
> Hi Eddie and all,
>
> If SL is unable to load the colour palette files, you should try 
> installing it in a folder *outside* the usual 'programs'-thingy in 
> windows. Quite likely the hyper-nervous 'operating system' doesn't 
> grant file access to that folder, and all sub-folders.
>
> Anyway, I've got a slow old PC where I installed windoze 10. I still 
> hate it (the "OS", not the PC) but maybe at given time, I will install 
> the C compiler there and try to debug it. I cannot promise anything 
> yet, because I am quite fed up with windows at the moment.
>
> Cheers,
>   Wolf DL4YHF .
>
> Am 10.03.2017 um 09:57 schrieb g3zjo:
>> On 10/03/2017 00:15, Markus Vester wrote:
>>> those version and build numbers look odd to me, are you sure you've 
>>> got them right?
>>
>> No :-)
>>
>> I should remember never to trust my memory. Correction V2.92 b02 is 
>> the newest, I was advised to try V2.90 b20, I only had V2.90 b16 
>> available so stepped back to that.
>> It was my last email late last night, excuses, excuses. I could have 
>> checked because they are both on this Laptop also. I have considered 
>> V2.92 b02 to be flaky on display from my first use, I mentioned it to 
>> Stefan. I had to start afresh with all my .config files it just 
>> didn't like my old ones.
>> Something not seen before but happens now on both releases on both 
>> machines is, constant messages on start up of "can't find the 
>> Pallete" ie Sunrise, the default. Do you see this? I wonder if it 
>> indicates that the two versions are using different locations to 
>> store display information. I know a lot of set up information is 
>> stored in memory.
>>
>> 73 Eddie G3ZJO
>>
>
>