lightspeed,
I just looked at hal's brain script in the Brain editor and came across this
'RESPOND: USER ASKING WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, HOW, WHY, BUT HAL DOESN'T KNOW ANSWER
If Len(GetResponse) < 4 Then
If InStr(OriginalSentence, "?") > 0 Then QuesQual = True
That's on line 1646
this one is important if you would like hal to learn
'PROCESS: BLOCK LEARNING IF HAL'S NAME IS DETECTED
'Here we check to see if the user is calling Hal by name; if the user is doing so,
'it's better not to save the sentence for re-use, since it usually makes the
'pronoun-reversed sentence sound clumsy or incorrect:
If InStr(1, OriginalSentence, ComputerName, vbTextCompare) > 0 Then HalBrain.ReadOnlyMode = True
line 445
'PROCESS: REMOVE PUNCTUATION
'This function removes all other punctuation and symbols from the User's
'sentence so they won't confuse Hal during processing.
UserSentence = HalBrain.AlphaNumericalOnly(UserSentence)
line 337
Good luck with you're problems, hope they are not Hal related. I's still stuck in graphics since I need clothing for Sandy to wear.
Carl2