Hello everybody, many thanks for suggestions and patience, and in particular to tannington, whose scheme formed the basis for recovering. Below is a description of the exercise, text left out is indicated by ’ … ', comments as
’ {text } ’ .
The point here is that Yast did not seem to function properly in text mode. I will maintain that it was KDE malfunctioning, causing ‘interesting’ problems.
Regards and THANKS,
Jan Christian Anker