Kalos frequently asked questions

  1. Why are you giving the program away?.
  2. Are you planning to develop a version for Mac?.
  3. Are you planning to add other features like backward search (from conjugated to canonical) or printing capabilities?.
  4. Why some English meanings have so strange translations?.
  5. Who supports you?.
  6. Are there mirror sites available for a faster downloading?.
  7. I simply cannot download the files. Could you send them via e-mail or FTP?.
  8. I have problems when downloading the files from your Geocities site. Why is the downloading so clumsy?.
  9. My WinZip doesn’t recognize one of the downloaded files as a zip file. What should I do?.
  10. Altough my browser issues a "download complete" message, the size of the file doesn’t match the size that you inform on your page, or the WinZip is unable to unzip them . What happened?.
  11. What are those "patches" on your download page?.
  12. I get a message like this "ActiveX can’t create object" after the initial screen, then the program hangs.
  13. I get some strange error messages in Castilian when conugating a verb.
  14. I think I discovered an error in the program, but I am not sure. What can I do?.

 

Answers
  1. Why are you giving the program away?.
    2. Because it is a good way to make the program known. Besides, we expect to be reported of bugs or errors.
  2. Are you planning to develop a version for Mac?.

    3. No, sorry. We know that many classicists use Macs but (at least while unsponsored) we cannot afford developing the program on another platform.

  3. Are you planning to add other features like backward search (from conjugated to canonical) or printing capabilities?.

    4. Yes, we have the technical knowledge and tools to do it. If we fail to get academic support from some institution, we will probably try to implement these features anyway, but it would imply much more time and effort, and we would sell new versions instead of giving them away.

  4. Why some English meanings have so strange translations?.

    5. Because we translated most meanings ourselves. If you discover translations rare or that could be improved, please let us know so as we can modify them it in our database.

  5. Who supports you?.

    6. Our three year-old daughter Manuela.

  6. Are there mirror sites available for a faster downloading?.

    7. Not yet. Some people asked files via FTP or e-mail in order to set some mirror sites, so maybe there will me some next.

  7. I simply cannot download the files. Could you send them via e-mail or FTP?.

    8. You should try by all means to get the files via web download, since we cannot afford emailing the files to everybody. If many people is interested, we could occasionaly send the files to a given FTP address, or to a bunch of e-mail addresses, but not on a regular basis.

     

  8. I have problems when downloading the files from your Geocities site. Why is the downloading so clumsy?.
    9. Geocities is a free-based web site. That’s why some sponsoring adds (cars, books, etcetera) appear sometimes when opening a page (sponsoring Geocities, not us!). We pay a small fee in order to get enough free space for KALOS setup files and pages. But it seems it’s crowded. However, it also depends heavily on the hour and your communication speed.
  9. My WinZip doesn’t recognize one of the downloaded files as a zip file. What should I do?.

    10. Your "xxx.zip" file has been downloaded uncomplete. Try downloading it again. If the problem persists, then maybe we didn’t upload it complete.

    

  10. Altough my browser issues a "download complete" message, the size of the file doesn’t match the size that you inform on your page, or the WinZip is unable to unzip them . What happened?.
    11. 

    After a long period of inactivity on the communication, some browsers "think" the download is complete although it’s not. Some users also reported that Netscape is able to resume the download at the point it was stopped, instead of starting over. 

    

  11. What are those "patches" on your download page?.
    12. 

    In order to fix some errors, it is not necessary to overwrite the whole set of files installed by KALOS. Most errors are located in three specific files (KALOS.exe, KalosOcx.ocx, GRIEGO.mdb). Many reported bugs of "program hanging" types are corrected by replacing the two first files. As they are short, it’s easy to download and upload them, or even to send them via e-mail. The third file is the database file, and as it’s larger (1 Mega zipped), it will be updated and uploaded less frequently. It normally contains "information" errors, such as a missing form, etc.
    


  12. I get a message like this "ActiveX can’t create object" after the initial screen, then the program hangs. 




This is not properly a Kalos error. It responds to a variety of causes, related to your system configuration. We cannot give you a specific way to deal with it, but here is a cheklist of possible hints.










mfc40d.dll,  870k,   6/10/95

mfco40d.dll, 650k,  6/10/95

msvcr40d.dll, 429k, 29/9/95

oleaut32.dll, 463k,  15/8/86




If they aren’t, re-run the setup making sure to answer "yes" if the setup asks you to write them instead of other files.