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From: robin@sabre.uucp (Robin D. Wilson/1000000)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: More A500 woes.
Message-ID: <2833@d75.UUCP>
Date: 16 Nov 89 20:40:40 GMT
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Reply-To: robin@reed.UUCP (Robin D. Wilson/1000000)
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Organization: IBM AWD, Austin, TX
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I have been leaving my A500 on all the time.  (I know that this is OK, but
it has highlighted a strange problem, that I haven't, as yet, seen mentioned.)

My Clock seems to be REAL slow.  I lost 2 minutes in 12 hours just last night.
BUT,... when I reboot, the clock gets reset by the battery backed clock in the
A501 expansion and starts to deteriorate from the correct time again.  How 
can I get a correctly synced system clock?

Also, several weeks ago I asked about a problem I am having with my serial 
port.  When dialed into a remote system, I seem to get spurious characters
in a more than acceptable amount.  (The characters are always a slanted
equal sign [which is the same as the checkerboard pattern character in the 
TOPAZ font] followed by an open curly brace.)  I get these characters when just
sitting there, or while typing, and they are only visible on the amiga side of
the connection (ie. they are not being echoed to or from the remote system).
I HAVE noticed that when I set the serial buffer to 2048 (in VLT4.226 [Great 
Program, Thanks SLAC]) the frequency of occurance is reduced.  This is most 
annoying because sometimes they come 3 or 4 times in one line of typing, and 
backspacing over them actually deletes the letters last echoed by the remote 
system.

How can I get the trachcan to show up directly on the workbench screen at 
startup?  (ie. I don't want to have to open the workbench disk, and then 
move the trashcan to the corner.  I want it to show up just like a disk icon.


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