| (FRIEND, THIS CHEESY WORD PROCESSING UNIT HAS
JUST REFUSED TO WORK ANY LONGER, FORCING ME TO ERASE AN
HOUR'S WORK OR SIT FOREVER TRANSFIXED, STARING AT A SCREEN
THAT CHANGES NOT. THE HOUR'S WORK WAS RECOMPOSED, A PROCESS
WHICH WILL LIKELY RESULT IN A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT NOVEL. NO MATTER; I HAD NO IDEA WHERE THE STORY WAS GOING ANYWAY. KINDLY OPEN FILE CHAPTER4AND5 TO CONTINUE THIS ABSORBING NARRATION. BY THE WAY, BE THANKFUL FOR THE BALANCE OF CHAPTER FOUR; THE RESURRECTED VERSION ITSELF WAS RETYPED IN ITS ENTIRETY BECAUSE THE MULTISCRIBE SYSTEM REFUSED TO REOPEN THE FILE. LUCKILY, I HAD ALREADY PRINTED IT OUT. OTHER GLITCHES HAVE ALSO CAUSED UNTOLD TRAVAIL. THANK YOU FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING, PATIENCE, AND SYMPATHY. THE AUTHOR.) (UPDATE: IT IS NOW SOME MONTHS OR YEARS SINCE THE ABOVE WAS WRITTEN. I WRITE NOW WITH A BRAND NEW MACINTOSH PLUS WITH ONE MEGABYTE OF RAM AND A FORTY MEGABYTE HARD DRIVE. I AM USING MICROSOFT WORD FOR THE MAC. THE APPLE II FILES WERE TRANSFERRED TO A 3.5-INCH FLOPPY DISK AND TRANSLATED BY THE MACINTOSH'S APPLE FILE EXCHANGE PROGRAM. THE SPECTOR OF THE LASER 128 AND MULTISCRIBE WORDPROCESSING SHALL NOT RAISE ITS UGLY HEAD AGAIN. I HOPE.)Planet Commandos CHAPTER FOUR CONTINUED AND RESURRECTED THRICE |