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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Logitech bus mouse; screen peace (no relation implied!)
Message-ID: <1990Jul11.175144.3034@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 11 Jul 90 17:51:44 GMT
References: <11251@rouge.usl.edu>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, San Jose, CA.
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In article <11251@rouge.usl.edu> ewe@gator.cacs.usl.edu (Edwin Wallace Elberson) writes:
>

[stuff about mice deleted]

>
>On an unrelated topic, I had the same problems others are having with the
>*.spx files for Screen Peace. Not the ones from scrnpe.zip, but the ones
>from spx.zip. It couldn't find the files (but it knew the filenames..?!?)
>and then it would terminate with an unrecoverable ... error. I made a
>directory c:\saver as instructed, and put saver.exe on the load= line in
>win.ini. I left ALL the *.spx files in the windows directory, (c:\saver
>was empty) then started windows (btw, c:\saver was also in my path). I
>used file manager to move the .spx files to c:\saver one by one, and after
>each one I killed screen peace and started it over again. By doing this,
>I got all the .spx files over to c:\saver with none of the aforementioned
>errors UNTIL I moved clock.spx over. Then I got all the errors again. So,
>I have everything working now except for clock.spx, which I deleted since
>I figured it wasn't any good. Does anyone have a good clock.spx?
>

There appears to be a problem with clock.spx being mistaken for clock.exe
(the windows app). Version 1.2 of Screenpeace was supposed to fix it, but
I don't think it did.

The solution is simple, rename it to something like clok.spx. It seems to
get the actual name from the header, not the file name so when you do
"options" it still shows up as clock in SP.

My other problem was a corrupt space.spx causing SP to abort the FIRST time
after starting windows, subsequent attempts were OK. I deleted space.spx and
all works fine now.

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