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From: sdorner@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Bugs (sigh) in Eudora Light/Pro 1.5.3/2.1.3
Date: 20 Jul 1995 22:31:16 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Reply-To: sdorner@qualcomm.com (Steve Dorner)
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I've identified two potentially troublesome bugs in Eudora Light/Pro
1.5.3/2.1.3.

NICKNAMES WITH OPTION-SPACE ON POWER MACINTOSH COMPUTERS

If you have made nicknames with the option-space character embedded in
the nickname itself, The fat or PPC version of Eudora running on a
PowerMac will misinterpret your nicknames file.

If you modify your nicknames in this situation, the option-spaces will
be replaced with regular spaces.  This will be bad.

Workarounds:

- Open your Eudora Nicknames file with a text editor, and replace all
occurrences of option-space with "_".

or

- Use the 68K version of Eudora, which doesn't have the problem.

or

- Stick with Eudora 1.5.2/2.1.2

If your nicknames file has already been damaged, you should restore from
a backup.


APPLE EVENT/APPLESCRIPT "GET BODY OF" ERROR

Using Apple Events or AppleScript to fetch the body of a composition
window will eventually cause a crash.  A fragment like:

        get body of message 1 of mailbox "out"

will be affected.  Only getting the body of a composition window is
affected.  Setting the body is fine, as is getting the body of an
incoming message.

Workarounds:

- Get the whole message, not just the body:

        get message 1 of mailbox "out"

or

- Stick with Eudora 1.5.2/2.1.2

These bugs will be fixed in a maintenance release.  Date of the release
is not yet determined.
-- 
Steve Dorner, Qualcomm Incorporated
"Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. ... He had won
 the victory over himself. He loved the flying E's."