date [-nu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t minutes_west] [+format] [[yy[mm[dd[hh]]]]mm[.ss]] (((Now I know I'm computer illiterate!

Joan, in UNIX, when you type man date you get a manual on how to use the date command. The date command also sets the time. So to set the date *and* time at a shell prompt (similar to a dos prompt) you type something like this: bash$ date 970223075205 Which will set the date to the year 97, the month Feb, the date the 23rd and the time the 07th hour and 52nd minute and 05th second. Does that help?

bash$ date 970223075205 Terry, Don't try to explain Unix to Joan. It just makes her cranky. You can also email me at mailto://mrobens@spring.com

OK. Our date and time are back on track now. but it might cause today s response to look like the day before's.

Thought you might all enjoy this... Top 10 reasons computers must be male: 10. They have a lot of data but are still clueless. 9. A better model is always just around the corner. 8. They look nice and shiny until you bring them home. 7. It is always necessary to have a back-up. 6. They'll do whatever you say if you push the right buttons. 5. The best part of having either one is the games you can play. 4. In order to get their attention, you have to turn them on. 3. The lights are on but nobody's home. 2. Big power surges knock them out for the night. 1. Size does matter.

Myretta: Terry, Don't try to explain Unix to Joan. It just makes her cranky. She's got that one right!

Cheryl, you left off the second half of the joke (this is slightly more geeky, and is about compilers for computer languages such as "C" or "BASIC"): Top 10 reasons compilers must be female: ======================================== 10. Picky, picky, picky. 9. They hear what you say, but not what you mean. 8. Beauty is only shell deep. 7. When you ask what's wrong, they say "nothing". 6. Can produce incorrect results with alarming speed. 5. Always turning simple statements into big productions. 4. Smalltalk is important. 3. You do the same thing for years, and suddenly it's wrong. 2. They make you take the garbage out. 1. Miss a period and they go wild

LOL HC! :-)

Cheryl and HC, now I can start the morning with a smile on my face :-)

Cheryl and HC: ROTFLOL. Showed my husband the first, his comment "Evil!", then found the second and he was much happier!! I love them both!;-)

hate to say this.... but my posts are all dated an hour behind. Is this my problem, or the systems?

hate to say this.... but my posts are all dated an hour behind. Is this my problem, or the systems? Neither, Kate. The server this system is on is in Austin, Texas

We're on CST.

Thanks for helping one tiny bit on this long and intricate journey to divine computor control, HC, Terry and Joan, too. Some day I would like a place to put my stuff, Terry but I am a slow learner. Two big LOL:s are always a help to relax, am grateful for that too HC and Cherzo.

Now I just tried to understand what went wrong with emoticon. For that purpose I clicked view document source: But got some scary message on missing post and then some nasty advice to reload. Is that not what causes All new desease? Is there a way to view my own last message after it is posted? To see what was wrong?

Was it really scary, Ann2. Was it fwightening? No, no known cause, no known cure for Oldiznew. No such number, no such zone. When you get that HTML checker message? I usually copy my message right then, but not try to correct it in the window that points out the error. Instead, go back to the previous page and paste it in again, then correcting it of course, and resubmit. To check your error yourself, just view source. You know how to do that.

No Amy I got no HTML error message...Just that annoying cracked picture And Zat meiks me furiush!! I was not enlightened by viewing source in that prevoius case re:114 No risk to reload then? Can you pwomiz me? Have you tidied up after me on pond site???And do cake tare!

Reloading is a danger here. Be very afraid.

Ann2, in message 114 you had a URL error, not an HTML error; instead of having "/~anneh/" in the URL, the "~" and the "a" somehow got combined together, and you had "/ãnneh/"...

Why thanks Hc I am grateful to know but would also like to know just how you can tell. Thanks to some Unix and zfinx and oinx and I know not whatsx, that are all in your command ?? When I click view source it is all gone from what I gather.

Well, a lot of the time I'm using "Lynx", which doesn't pay any attention to the no-cache HTTP headers. But you can view source even in an inferior browser like Netscape ;-) if you use the "redisplay" button at the bottom, and then run "View Source" on THAT page...

Maybe someone here can help us. Last week we had to re-install Win 3. Since then we have had a problem with colours in Netscape (2.01 whatever). Photos appear blotchy grey/black/white, with odd garish patches of red, yellow or blue. However other graphics, like Henry's Coat of Arms, for example, are fine. The chat room, usually pink, is white. Any suggestions that might help?

Have you tried minimizing, then restoring, a few times? I had this same problem with Netscape when I first downloaded it.

Hey that coat of arms is for Amy -- my initials aren't "AB". It may have something to do with the handling of image colors; in some sub-menu somewhere, you can check off options for "Always dither", "Always Substitute Colors", or "Automatically choose between Dither and Substitute". It sounds like you may have "Always Substitute" selected, which is porbably not what you want... Also, make sure your video driver is at least 256 colors...

Susan, thanks but that doesn't fix it. Thanks Henry. We have it on 'auto choose' already, so I think it is a problem to do with the 256 colours. We tried choosing one of the 256 palette options (VGA, I think), but that choice then crashed us again. We will keep trying, however. But the coat of arms was of your making......

Whatever became of Austinite Henry Churchill?