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Evensong
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# 14696

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Hi all,

How do I put a link in my sig line with a title (like I can do in a normal post) and not just the URL?

Or should I ask this in the UBB thread?

Thanks!

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Alan Cresswell

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You'll need to type the relevant code manually. Or, more simply, compose a dummy post with the link done as you would do normally and then copy and paste it into your sig. You can use the UBB practice thread to put the dummy post and check your sig if you want.

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Evensong
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Thanks for the reply Alan. Can't do it. [Tear]

Made the link in a normal post
Copied and pasted but no link transfered, just the words...so tried "copy link location" and that didn't work either.

What am I doing wrong? [Confused]

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Alan Cresswell

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You'll need text that says something like
code:
[URL=http://somesitesomewhere.htm]Site description[/url]

When you use the URL button below the reply window that text will be generated for you. Copy the whole lot to your sig.

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Latchkey Kid
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quote:
Originally posted by Evensong:
Thanks for the reply Alan. Can't do it. [Tear]

Made the link in a normal post
Copied and pasted but no link transfered, just the words...so tried "copy link location" and that didn't work either.

What am I doing wrong? [Confused]

I think you need something like
URL=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqnakuXMG5g]Pagan[/URL]

with an initial square bracket

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Latchkey Kid
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quote:
Originally posted by Latchkey Kid:
quote:
Originally posted by Evensong:
Thanks for the reply Alan. Can't do it. [Tear]

Made the link in a normal post
Copied and pasted but no link transfered, just the words...so tried "copy link location" and that didn't work either.

What am I doing wrong? [Confused]

I think you need something like
URL=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqnakuXMG5g]Pagan[/URL]

with an initial square bracket

You can find the whole string for Pagan here if you use the quote button.

replace 'Pagan' with the text you want to use to represent the hyperlink.

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'You must never give way for an answer. An answer is always the stretch of road that's behind you. Only a question can point the way forward.'
Mika; in Hello? Is Anybody There?, Jostein Gaardner

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Evensong
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Thank you both. We have action. [Yipee]

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The Silent Acolyte

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Here is a question about how private messages work.

Here is the scenario:
  1. I send a private message.
  2. Events move along so that the private message is no longer pertinent.
  3. I examine My Profile and see that the private message is Unread by recipient.
  4. I delete the private message.
  5. That message no longer appears in my Sent private messages list.
  6. The recipient of 'my' private message to him now logs onto Ship of Fools.
Has the system also deleted that private message for the recipient, or does it still exist in his Incoming private messages list?

It doesn't much matter to me one way or the other, but I'm curious what deleting an Unread Private Message actually does.

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RooK

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quote:
Originally posted by The Silent Acolyte:
Here is a question about how private messages work.

Here is the scenario:
  1. I send a private message.
  2. Events move along so that the private message is no longer pertinent.
  3. I examine My Profile and see that the private message is Unread by recipient.
  4. I delete the private message.
  5. That message no longer appears in my Sent private messages list.
  6. The recipient of 'my' private message to him now logs onto Ship of Fools.
Has the system also deleted that private message for the recipient, or does it still exist in his Incoming private messages list?

It doesn't much matter to me one way or the other, but I'm curious what deleting an Unread Private Message actually does.

Once a Private Message is sent, the recipient has a copy. The sender deleting their sent original does not change the message in the recipient's queue, read or unread.
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W Hyatt
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It also does not change the copy the recipient may have chosen to receive automatically by email (which also means that Unread by recipient doesn't necessarily mean it hasn't been read by the recipient).
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The Silent Acolyte

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Thanks, RooK.

And, thank you W Hyatt. Had I thought harder, I should have been able to suss that path out myself.

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The Silent Acolyte

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On a recent thread I wanted to demonstrate how clever I was by spelling soupcon with a cedilla. Only I wasn't so clever.

To get the codes for special characters I used to google babybear ubb, and presto-change-o babybear's website came up with all I needed. But, that fails me now. How do I find a character map?

I know I've asked this before, but for the life of me I can't remember the answer.

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Curiosity killed ...

Ship's Mug
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You reminded me, that bookmark was one that I haven't re-discovered after computer crashes - but this looks like what you're looking for.

Coding for a cedilla in terms I'll remember is soupçon - which is
code:
ç



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orfeo

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For the last few days to a week, I've been having a lot of issues with the loading of pages on the boards. This is on two DIFFERENT computers, although both are running Internet Explorer.

The weird thing is that after saying it can't load the page, if I press the 'Back' button I frequently go 'back' to the page I was trying to get to. This suggests to me that the problem isn't in the main page, but in some side code, the kind that is often used to load Google ads or Facebook links.

Is anyone else having these experiences and/or understand what I'm talking about?

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orfeo

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Update on the above: at my work, they have just announced that an issue affecting web browsing more generally for the last couple of days was due to "a particular set of external advertisements" (and their fix is to prevent these ads appearing, though they haven't specified which ones they are).

So that strengthens what I said in my previous post. It's probably not directly due to the main Ship code, but to something in the advertisements on the side. Can someone tech-minded look into this?

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Dave Marshall

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No idea about a fix, but I've been getting what sounds like the same problem in IE6.
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Evensong
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Can anyone advise on how to attach a pdf file to a post?

[Confused]

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AdamPater
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I don't think you can, because a post is just UBB-coded text that gets displayed nicely by the Ship. But you could load your pdf into some handy location on some home-page you have access to, then include a hyperlink to it, same as for any other link.

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Evensong
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HHhhhhmmnnn, thanks AP.

I just saw someone post a link with a pdf ending....and it opened like a pdf. Now I can't find it. [Roll Eyes]

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Alan Cresswell

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Here's a little something I wrote in a pdf file. It's linked to in exactly the same way as any other file on the web. As long as your browser is set up to open pdfs (ie: have Acrobat reader or similar installed) it will open, if not it'll probably ask you if you want to save the file or open it with another program. The same is true of, for example, graphics files.

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Robert Armin

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Is the Ship having any technical problems at the moment? I keep "losing" pages at the moment, especially when trying to post replies. To find anything I have to reload the main page and work through from there. Now it could well be my dodgy server - but I don't have the same problems on other websites. This has happened to me for the last 3 or 4 days, I think, so I am wondering if anything at the Ship's end might be responsible.

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Evensong
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quote:
Originally posted by Alan Cresswell:
Here's a little something I wrote in a pdf file. It's linked to in exactly the same way as any other file on the web. As long as your browser is set up to open pdfs (ie: have Acrobat reader or similar installed) it will open, if not it'll probably ask you if you want to save the file or open it with another program. The same is true of, for example, graphics files.

I figured it out! [Yipee] [Yipee] I had to right click on the website link to the pdf file. Then paste into the URL window.

Thanks for the 1.8 megabyte download on spectrometry Alan. [Biased]

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RooK

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Huh. I just clicked the link and it loaded directly in my browser, in exactly the manner Alan described.
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Loquacious beachcomber
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Not urgent, just baffling!
When I begin to sign in, if I put the first letter of my sign-in name, and then click beside it, my full name comes up under the sign-in spot.
If I then click on that name, it appears in the sign-in space, with dots for my password appearing underneath.
So, then, if I hit enter, the system tells me there is no one by that name registered!
So, is the system simply screwing me around, or is this some sort of anomoly?

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passer

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I've noticed that not all pre-fill systems store the password. The correct number of asterisks will be displayed, but sometimes I still have to over-type the password. Could be that.
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chukovsky

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This may be deliberate, and it may have already been reported, but, when you click on the picture at the top of each board/new post, which says e.g. The Styx, it takes you back to the main board home page, not e.g. The Styx.

I was slightly surprised by this as I was expecting that clicking on a picture saying "The Styx" would take me to The Styx...

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This space left intentionally blank. Do not write on both sides of the paper at once.

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Spike

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It's always done that.

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chukovsky

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Guess I've never tried clicking on the pictures before then. Odd, as I normally click on everything I can lay my mouse on, especially when bored.

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Horseman Bree
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I went to bed last night, closing Explorer, but without logging off the Ship. The computer ran all night with no interruptions.

When I opened the Ship Community page, I was logged off.

And all threads on the intro pages for Styx or Heaven... are still showing as "new posts", even though I have logged on.

Did I just enter an alternate universe?

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It's Not That Simple

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Horseman Bree
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Having left the site and come back, I find the "new posts" indicator to be working OK.

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It's Not That Simple

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Wesley J

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quote:
Originally posted by Horseman Bree:
Having left the site and come back, I find the "new posts" indicator to be working OK.

It's not that simple, as you rightly say. [Smile]

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RooK

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quote:
Originally posted by Golden Key:
Hi. I've been trying to reply to a PM, and I keep getting the following error:

quote:
Sorry, we do not permit the following HTML tag or attribute: Parenthesis in HTML tag

There isn't any such tag. And IIRC this is a known problem that's occured before.

Anything I can do about it???

Thanks!

PS And when I tried to preview this post, it tried to open the preview in *this* window, rather than a separate one, and gave me a blank screen.

Please post your example post inside of {code} {/code} tags - it should show us what you're trying to do.
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Golden Key
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Sorry for not posting on this thread originally. I looked for it, but didn't see it.

The PM is personal, so I can't really post it here. But I didn't use any HTML tags, URLS, etc. A couple of emoticons, and some hug brackets.

I'll try removing the brackets later, and get back to you.

Thanks!

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Golden Key
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Ok, I got it to work!

The only thing I changed was the use of > and < to set off quotes from the person I was replying to. I substituted *. Normally, the < and > don't cause a problem.

So what I originally had was something like:

code:
>This is the person's PM quote that I pasted in.<

And here is my response.

I changed it to:

code:
*This is the person's PM quote that I pasted in.*

And here is my response.



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Blessed Gator, pray for us!
--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")

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Alan Cresswell

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HTML tags are enclosed in < > ... so anything between any such pair would be parsed as HTML code. If that includes ( ) or some other characters it can generate the error you encountered - even though HTML is turned off on the boards.

If you're using those characters to mark quotes and split the quote then you can get that situation.

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Bullfrog.

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I don't wander this way much, but I was going to send a transcript of a preached sermon to Mamacita, and (I suppose because the message contained bullet points) got this lovely error message:
quote:
Ouch! An error has occured:
Wide character in syswrite at CGIPath/Modules//Net/Cmd.pm line 429.
Please inform the board administration of this error so that they can abuse the vendor. Thanks!

Board Administration: consider yourself informed. Thanks!

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Others say God's a drunkard for pain
Me, I believe that the Garden of Eden
Was burned to make way for a train. --Josh Ritter, Harrisburg

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jlg

What is this place?
Why am I here?
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Ah, the ghost of our beloved Gator lives on in Ship error messages.

Sadly, I have no access to a software vendor so I can't commit a random act of abuse in Erin's memory. (Abusing the poor schmuck who answers the customer service phone doesn't count.)

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Spike

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I'm not sure whether that one was Erin or not. All the Admins have played with the error messages at some point.

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jlg

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Why am I here?
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Well, whether she actually wrote it or not, she had a lot to do with setting the tone of things around here, aided and abetted by all the usual suspects (including Simon and AM).

And having had a recent month's experience with Erin's Mothership in Minnesota, where brilliant and wonderful people work within a classic major medical bureaucracy, I appreciate her blend of truly caring about people while having no patience with idiots even more.

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Porridge
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quote:
Originally posted by Alan Cresswell:
HTML tags are enclosed in < > ... so anything between any such pair would be parsed as HTML code. If that includes ( ) or some other characters it can generate the error you encountered - even though HTML is turned off on the boards.

If you're using those characters to mark quotes and split the quote then you can get that situation.

Erm . . I'm confused. I am trying to post a normal-looking URL in order to link to an outside source. There are no parentheses in the URL, but I keep getting the error message about parentheses referred to above.

What do I do in order to post the link?

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Moon: Including what?
Spiggott: That everything I've ever told you is a lie.
Moon: That's not true!

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Gracious rebel

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Could try Tiny URL ?

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Metapelagius
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quote:
Originally posted by RooK:
quote:
Originally posted by The Silent Acolyte:
Here is a question about how private messages work.

Here is the scenario:
  1. I send a private message.
  2. Events move along so that the private message is no longer pertinent.
  3. I examine My Profile and see that the private message is Unread by recipient.
  4. I delete the private message.
  5. That message no longer appears in my Sent private messages list.
  6. The recipient of 'my' private message to him now logs onto Ship of Fools.
Has the system also deleted that private message for the recipient, or does it still exist in his Incoming private messages list?

It doesn't much matter to me one way or the other, but I'm curious what deleting an Unread Private Message actually does.

Once a Private Message is sent, the recipient has a copy. The sender deleting their sent original does not change the message in the recipient's queue, read or unread.
Has something changed (or been changed)? I send and receive very few private messages (average 3 per year) - I have never got around to clearing old ones but as there is no danger as far as I can see of the box being full this shouldn't matter particularly. For the present purpose, however, it should have everything I have ever sent or received as still visible - according to hostly information.

The last incoming message in the box is dated October 24th last year. However I received a later message - on January 25th this year - which appeared in the ordinary mail system, not the SoF private messages box. A week or two ago I sent a p.m. - the first since July 2009. No copy of this message appears in the SoF private messages list. From what Rook says, I would expect one to be there. I haven't had a reply to my message - this may mean no more than that the addressee is away, has an ailing computer, or doesn't wish to rely to my question, of course. But the absence of a 'file copy' makes me wonder whether I have done something wrong and that the message has gone nowhere. But that would not explain the message of Jan 25th not being there either. Is anyone able to shed any light on a minor mystery?

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Eutychus
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Are you sure you didn't send an e-mail via the Ship, rather than a PM?

[ 10. July 2011, 17:53: Message edited by: Eutychus ]

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Metapelagius
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quote:
Originally posted by Eutychus:
Are you sure you didn't send an e-mail via the Ship, rather than a PM?

As far as I remember whatever it is that says 'send new private message' at the top. But as I do it so rarely I could have got it wrong I would have to admit. In the case of the message sent to me, I wouldn't know how the sender did it. But thanks for your reply!

[ 10. July 2011, 22:45: Message edited by: Metapelagius ]

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Eutychus
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Depending on what options you've enabled in your profile, the two icons (which look quite similar) may be adjacent - they are on your own posts. The e-mail message function text has the words "private" and "message" in it, so it's not impossible to get them mixed up.

I'm only a very occasional PMer, have messages going back to 2003 in my box, and have noticed nothing awry.

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I was reviewing the MWs of the Camino, and tried Cathedral of Santa Maria del Romeral, Monzon . All I got was a dull grey page with the mystic words "table width"

All the other MWs I tried worked as advertised, so I don't think the problem is at my end.

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It just opened for me with no problem.

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Pigwidgeon

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It just opened for me with no problem.

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Horseman Bree
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The grey is the background grey that accompanies the Ship pages(either side on a wide screen)

I still get ">table width", but only for that one page - all the others I try give me the appropriate page.

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Sorry! I'm havng computer problems -- I didn't think my post went through once, let alone twice.

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