Subj : Re: EDIT text editor
To   : Jimmy Day
From : Greg Sears
Date : Tue Nov 12 2002 06:32 pm

 JD> G'day yourself, Mr. Greg!  How are things in your part of our ever-
 JD> shrinking world?
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WHAT ||||||||| ||||| Mate, the world turns, it isn't shinking?

 JD> On 10-26-02, Greg Sears said to Jimmy Day:

 GS>  JD> (and DOS 6.22 fit onto 3 floppy disks)... in "the good old
 GS>  JD> days"...

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 ::28 Oct 02  23:54:00, Jimmy Day wrote a Message to Greg Sears::


 JD> (Windows 3.1 on 6 disks)

   Jimmy Day, Talking about. . . . . . disks WINDOWS 98 ONE (1) Disk! CD ;-)

 GS>  JD> What's an easy way to see if a mail packet is QWK or BW without
 GS>  JD> unzipping?  I have a LOT of mail packets on the drive here and
 GS>  JD> they've been renamed so I don't know which is which.  I don't
 GS>  JD> see any way to do this via MM or Blue Wave.

 JD> Mr. McB. kindly pointed out to me the line in MM where it tells the
 JD> type of packet.  It *was* obvious, once I actually *looked*...

Good MAN that Mr. McB!!!

 JD> Anywhooo, I wanted to know because I have over a hundred mail packets
 JD> scattered all over the drive, and have programs to merge them, and
 JD> needed to know.  MM does read BW, QWK, and SOUP mail.

I've never tried ~merge~ packets. I use ~zip~ here from a *.bat program that 
does many of the things Mmail doesn't offer in a menu_thingy.

 JD> Actually, I have been pleased with MultiMail, but it recently grunged
 JD> a reply packet I sent to a BBS; and the sysop tells me another person
 JD> had the same problem with HER MM, so I am using CMPQwk now.  It's
 JD> great, almost like using MS' Outlook Express.  Boy am I spoiled now.

EH I tried that CMPQwk thingy as well, but it was crippled in tag +sigs so 
dropped it quick. ~free~ ware is ME!! ;-)

 JD> Greg, do you know of anyone else who's had this strange glitch with
 JD> Multi Mail?  Upon upload, the mail door program unpacks it, and
 JD> messages explode all over.  I grunged the BBS with over a hundred
 JD> "blank" messages in the local areas.

OUCH. . . . never heard of that happening down_under. Mind I only use one FREE 
system here. It's a FUN thing keeping in touch with the ""past""!

 JD> Of course it only reads QWK mail, but that hasn't been a problem, as
 JD> the BBS I post via all have QWK offline reader doors.

Have lost any QWK mail BBs's Damn! I love Silly-Little-Mail-Reader!! ;-(

 JD> My main BBS also has the Blue Wave Door, which did mysterious things
 JD> to my last-read pointers and selected conferences, so all I use is
 JD> QWK- format mail.

I do enjoy using Blue_Wave, and find it is an excellent reading_sending BBs 
type messages. I enjoy Mmail cause it does allow a slow_computer user some 
lee-way to play, and not hurt the program or machine.

 JD> Also, I struggled for months before I realized that BW and QWK are
 JD> actually two different packing formats, so I coined a memory catchword
 JD> to remember what goes with what.  "NEW with BLUE".

Good Fun in the game of computer_play EH!!!

 JD> Boy am I corny tonight!

Chuckles with Jimmy Day thinking. . ."Corn... on the cob, or in the can?"

 JD> Well, cheers for now.  I do like your signature on your messages!

YUP one of the reasons for quitting . . .

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