Re: jfw gone mad!!
- From: "curmudgeon" <one2three4five6@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 06:09:18 -0800
questions, for answers not in posts
1 how big is your hard drive on your 98 machine
2how big is your my documents folder
y not move your my documents folder to the big hard drive??
its probably the biggest folder you can move, to the other drive
and you can make it the default drive for it,
i have been told anyway
have not done, it myself
added a 160 gig external drive from iomega
for back up
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robbie L. Miller" <Robbie.Miller@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: jfw gone mad!!
Hello Sean,
I don't have enough free space on my C drive to install anything, let alone
jfw 6.0. I must install to the internal D drive. The problem is, even
though the jfw install gives you the option to install to a different
drive/location, jfw 6.0 requires one to install in the default installation
directory, or it will hang at boot-up.
JFW 6.0 looks for setting files in the windows directory on a 98 machine at
boot-up, and begins repeating "unknown function new text event",
when it can't find them.
Strangely, when my sighted son closed and reopened jfw 6.0 with the mouse,
jfw 6.0 works fine until you boot-up again.
No keyboard functions will work while the repeating of
"unknown function, new text event",
is going on.
The blind user can do nothing with the 98 machine,
unless you have some eyes around to shutdown jfw 6.0 whenever you need to
boot-up or re-boot the 98 machine.
I suppose one could also set jfw 6.0 not to start at boot-up, and use the
jfw hot key (control-alt-j) after the machine boots up.
I'm sure FS will resolve this issue soon, they were very nice about the
situation.
We tried various work-arounds, but nothing worked.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean McMahon" <smcmahon@xxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: jfw gone mad!!
> Which drive is jaws on now? can you just move stuff over from c to the
> external
> drive? The whole thing is crazy.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robbie L. Miller" <Robbie.Miller@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 10:03 AM
> Subject: Re: jfw gone mad!!
>
>
> Hello Kimberly,
> I just got off the phone with FS, and jfw 6.0 is still raving like a
> lunatic; "unknown function, new text event".
> What I've learned, on a windows 98 machine, you *MUST* install jfw 6.0 on
> the C drive, and in the default location! I have an older 98 computer,
> and
> my C drive is full, so I installed a 20 gb hard drive (D:). I installed
> the
> last 4 versions of jfw on this D drive, but jfw 6.0 won't work for me, it
> hangs at boot-up. JFW tech support says jaws looks for the settings files
> in the windows directory at start-up, and if they are in another
> directory,
> jfw goes madd! Freedom Scientific is working on the problem. Since I
> don't
> have enough free space on my C drive, I can't use jfw 6.0 until I buy a
> bigger C drive, or FS resolves the problem. Ironically, if I purchase and
> install a new hard drive, I'll lose my authorization to use jfw 6.0, as my
> locking code will change.
> ... Unbelievable "unknown function, new text event" ...
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "KStarrett" <kstarrett5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 9:21 AM
> Subject: RE: jfw gone mad!!
>
>
>> Hi Robbie,
>>
>> This same thing happened to me when I installed 5.1 and tried to merge my
>> old settings with the new version. Have you tried reinstalling 6.0?
>>
>> Kimberly
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
>>> Behalf Of Robbie L. Miller
>>> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 7:10 AM
>>> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: jfw gone mad!!
>>>
>>>
>>> I installed the 6.0 ILM version of jfw on my old Windows 98
>>> machine yesterday with no problems. I even installed the whats
>>> new, and basic training files on the hard drive as well. JFW 6.0
>>> worked fine yesterday, I even gave the FS Reader a spin, it
>>> worked fine as well.
>>> Today however, when I started the 98 machine, jfw began repeating
>>> "unknown function, new text event".
>>> I can't get jfw to stop saying "unknown function, new text
>>> event", jfw just keeps repeating it's self!
>>> If I press the control key jfw will stop repeating for just a
>>> moment, and begin again. I've tried pressing the shift, alt, and
>>> even unloading jfw, nothing works.
>>> I typed in my password and pressed the enter key, and my son told
>>> me the computer did log in to my network, but jfw still keeps
>>> repeating "unknown function, new text event". No matter which
>>> key I press, jfw will speak the key, then begin repeating the
>>> same thing again "unknown function, new text event".
>>> Using the mouse, my son was able to shut down jfw 6.0, and
>>> restart it. After the restart, jfw 6.0 work fine, but when I
>>> rebooted the machine, the same problems came back. Any ideas?
>>>
>>> robbie.miller@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>>
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