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From: bdahlen@zephyr.cair.du.edu (Robert L. Dahlen - U. of Denver USA=)
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Subject: Re: Portfolio woes
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Date: 8 Aug 90 18:12:18 GMT
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In article <29415@cc.usu.edu> SL2FX@cc.usu.edu (Randy Lee - Utah State University, Logan, UT) writes:
>Hi Netters!
>	I've been having quite a bit of difficulty with my Portfolio lately.
>The middle of long text files seem to vanish, the copy con routine will not
>accept lines longer than 9 characters and it's running down the batteries in 
>about 3 weeks (as opposed to 6 or seven weeks for the first few sets).
>	I'd be interested to hear from anyone who has had their P. in for
>service.  The dealer I got it from doesn't seem to know much about the 
>machine and I'm reluctant to give it to him for service, nor do I want to 
>mail it off to Japan to be fixed (they kept my Seiko for 6 months!).

Two things that might help:

On the Atari BBS there is a "fix" program to repair some bugs like the
Copy Con problems.  Also, there was a addendum that came with my manual
that said something about using a CONFIG.SYS with certain perameters.
I don't have it here at work though:-(.

Bob
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