IDLE won't launch, and other frustrations

[Michael A. Covington]

"Dennis Lee Bieber" <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:l2a260lj050pch3sq57vfp29rsq099tgp9 at 4ax.com...
> On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 20:48:19 -0500, "Michael A. Covington"
> <snip>
> My apologies... The name seems familiar... "Astrophotography for
> the Amateur", by chance?

That's me!  Since I lead a double life, I'll give you both signature blocks
below...

By the way, the deal with WN16 was - can you believe it - an AUTOEXEC.BAT
file!  I didn't know such things would even still run under Windows XP, but
there it was.

WN16 is WordNet 1.6, from Princeton University, basically a huge synonym
dictionary of English.  They are up to version 2.0 now and it's much better
behaved.  The open-source community is _finally_ learning something about
how Windows works.  For a while there, inept Windows configuration seemed to
be a point of pride with some kinds of free software tools!


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Michael A. Covington, Associate Director
Artificial Intelligence Center, The University of Georgia
http://www.ai.uga.edu/~mc

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Michael Covington   --  www.covingtoninnovations.com
Author, Astrophotography for the Amateur
and (new) How to Use a Computerized Telescope