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  • Lotus 123 3.1 for DOS Question

    From James Tyree@VERT/AMSTRAD to All on Wed Feb 22 23:22:42 2023
    Hey everyone!

    I thought I would ask the question here and see if any "old-timers" might have an idea as to what might be wrong.

    As the subject says, I'm using Lotus 123 version 3.1 for DOS. It's a fresh install from NOS floppies. I installed on a 486SX and everything wen't perfectly.

    My problem is, I can't enter any numbers in the cells. If I enter a number and press Enter, it replaces the number with 0. It does this regardless of the cell formatting. I tried openning one of the stock spreadsheets that came on the install disks and every cell where there should be a number (was following along a tutorial guide and could see the numbers in the screenshot), there was a 0.

    I know version 3.1 had issues, but I'm sure it still allowed you to enter a dang number. Anyone know what might be causing this? I asked ChatGPT and it just laughed at me.

    James

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to James Tyree on Thu Feb 23 06:41:00 2023
    James Tyree wrote to All <=-

    As the subject says, I'm using Lotus 123 version 3.1 for DOS. It's a fresh install from NOS floppies. I installed on a 486SX and everything wen't perfectly.

    My problem is, I can't enter any numbers in the cells.

    Are you running this in a command prompt under Windows or actual DOS?
    If DOS, what version?


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  • From James Tyree@VERT/AMSTRAD to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Feb 24 22:28:53 2023
    Re: Re: Lotus 123 3.1 for DOS Question
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to James Tyree on Thu Feb 23 2023 06:41 am

    My problem is, I can't enter any numbers in the cells.

    Are you running this in a command prompt under Windows or actual DOS?
    If DOS, what version?


    I'm booting straight to DOS ver 5.0. I don't even have Windows installed.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to James Tyree on Sat Feb 25 09:19:00 2023
    James Tyree wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    I'm booting straight to DOS ver 5.0. I don't even have Windows
    installed.

    I'd try with a bare-bones config.sys and autoexec.bat.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to James Tyree on Sat Feb 25 14:55:12 2023
    Re: Lotus 123 3.1 for DOS Question
    By: James Tyree to All on Wed Feb 22 2023 11:22 pm

    dang number. Anyone know what might be causing this? I asked ChatGPT and it just laughed at me.

    that thing is smarter than i thought it was. i'm laughing at you too.
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  • From James Tyree@VERT/AMSTRAD to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Feb 26 17:59:02 2023
    Re: Re: Lotus 123 3.1 for DOS Question
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to James Tyree on Sat Feb 25 2023 09:19 am

    I'm booting straight to DOS ver 5.0. I don't even have Windows installed.

    I'd try with a bare-bones config.sys and autoexec.bat.

    I installed version 3.4 for DOS and though it's more graphical than "old school dos like", it doesn't suffer from the problem. I'll reinstall version 3.1 and play with the config/autoexec files to see if I can get any different behavior.

    Thank you for the suggestion poindexter!

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  • From Phigan@VERT/TACOPRON to James Tyree on Tue Feb 28 07:52:21 2023
    Re: Re: Lotus 123 3.1 for DOS Question
    By: James Tyree to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Feb 26 2023 05:59 pm

    dos like", it doesn't suffer from the problem. I'll reinstall version 3.1 a play with the config/autoexec files to see if I can get any different behavi

    I'm more inclined to think it's a setting in Lotus 123 than something to do with your startup.

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