Subj : Editor problem with M
To   : WILLIAM MCBRINE
From : MAX CHAMBERLAIN
Date : Thu Feb 12 2004 03:32 pm

-=> WILLIAM MCBRINE wrote to MAX CHAMBERLAIN <=-

 -=> MAX CHAMBERLAIN wrote to WILLIAM MCBRINE <=-

 MC> Also it doesn't seem to make any difference whether I spell out
 MC> 'Program files' or use progra~1.

 WM> Ah... MultiMail doesn't care, but OLXed does. :-) This is
 WM> probably the issue -- you're passing a long pathname to OLXed
 WM> (and a pathname with spaces, at that), and it doesn't
 WM> understand it.

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 WM> There are three possible solutions:

 WM> 1. Use the "TempDir" keyword in mmail.rc to specify a pathname
 WM> that fits within the 8.3 scheme -- remembering that it's not
 WM> just what you put into the mmail.rc per se, but what it
 WM> _resolves_ to.


William, thanks so much for the helpful response.  It looks like using
'Program files' was the problem.  It was probably overkill, but I
changed every instance of the LFN to 'progra~1' and now the editor in
the DOS version 0.46 performs like 0.37.  I can now see the text being
quoted while in OLXed, then later when viewing my saved reply I also see
the new text I added.

There is one other thing I would like to change.  Right now when I'm in
OLXed (either v0.37 or 0.46) the background is black and the lines of
text are white.  For some reason I find this combination to be a bit
hard on my eyes.  When in the editor, I'd much prefer to have yellow
text on a blue background which is the scheme I have defined in the
Colors file for Letter_Text in the Message Window (and which is
displayed in OLXed when running OLX-TD).  I've played with some of the
lines in the Colors file but haven't found anything that affects the
color scheme in the editor window.  Any suggestions regarding this?
 
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