Subj : Re: RJAM Wide Screen Support
To   : tassiebob
From : MeaTLoTioN
Date : Fri Oct 11 2024 17:51:16

On 08 Oct 2024, tassiebob said the following...
 
 ta> I tried NNTP a few days ago (Mystic A47) and the experience was
 ta> interesting.
 ta> 
 ta> I found Thunderbird mostly worked, although occasionally it appeared to
 ta> disconnect and Thunderbird got confused (started pulling up empty
 ta> articles).  Restarting Thunderbird fixed it - until the next time.
 ta> 
 ta> Pan was a non-starter - I don't remember exactly, but I think it failed
 ta> to retrieve the groups.
 ta> 
 ta> tin didn't play nicely.  Again, I can't recall exactly what the issue
 ta> was.
 ta> 
 ta> slrn looked promising, and mostly worked, but never saw new messages.
 ta> 
 ta> I haven't retried with Mystic A48.

claws-mail was my favourite NNTP/Email program.

 ta> I took a look at this but success has been limited so far.  Where I
 ta> tripped up was the Mystic display codes require a two digit number, so
 ta> saying "Fill until column 131" doesn't work.  I can probably re-work
 ta> things to not rely on those display codes - haven't had a chance to try
 ta> that yet (I was hoping the simple approach would work, lol).
 ta> 
 ta> I was trying to tweak the indexed message reader - is that what you did?

Upgrade to the latest Mystic, it'll let you use 3 char position codes so 
widescreen will work better for you there.

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