Subj : Feature Request
To   : Angus Mcleod
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Jun 19 2005 10:57 am

  Re: Feature Request
  By: Angus Mcleod to Digital Man on Sun Jun 19 2005 09:36 am

 > I don't know why I've never suggested this before because I often wish for
 > it, but anyway:
 > 
 > I'd like to suggest a new option on the "Sub-board Operator Menu".  This
 > option would allow the opertator to edit/alter/change the Subject of the
 > message.  At present you can alter the text of the message as necessary by
 > running the [E] Edit Message Text option, but there is no way (that I am
 > aware of) to alter the Sugject.

It's possible, but not easy. The subject is a variable length header field
embedded in the header, so if you wish to make the subject longer (for
example), then you have to rewrite the entire header which may then require an
additional allocation block, which basically means adding a new header to the
end of the SHD file and removing the old (effectively "moving" the header).
A similar process occurs when editing the body of a message and it then
requires more header blocks than the original message.

Anyway, if it were just a matter of adding a command and a prompt/edit box, I'd
already be done. :-)

                                                  digital man

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