Subj : Heeeeellllp
To   : August Abolins
From : Martin Foster
Date : Thu Mar 14 2019 13:45:00

Hello August!

On 14.03.19 at 02:35, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

 AA> On 13.03.19, you wrote:

 AA>>> WinPoint seems to be quite a fine all-in-one program for supporting
 AA>>> echomail access without needing any other fancy FTN support programs.

 MF>> Yes it is but it's a bit buggy here 'n there and unfortunately the bugs
 MF>> will probably never be fixed :-((

 AA> Other than the char-case issues with the arealist,what else are you
 AA> finding buggy?  I am still quite new to WinPoint so I am not sure what
 AA> else I may encounter.

- WinPoint sometimes crashes when you try to change the font
- Changes to some of the templates don't always "stick"
- After starting WinPoint and polling for mail, the mailer logfile      
  doesn't appear in the "Reports" folder until you exit and re-start    
  WinPoint
- Adding an archiver to the list of archivers doesn't work

There's probably more but those are the ones that immediately spring  
to mind.

 AA> I do seem to have a problem with using the Request feature.
 AA> It seems to always build a request to 0:8/15.

Ah, that's because you didn't click the "Neu" button first ;-)

 AA> I don't know where the number comes from.

Neither do I.

 AA> So, Instead, I resorted to creating my filefix requests manually
 AA> and directly in netmail.

Hmmmmm, you could have used the "Filearea Management" function for  
that.

 AA> But now that I have subscribed to getting the nodelist automatically from
 AA> my boss, I don't expect to be needing the built-in Request anymore.  But
 AA> it sure would be nice if Request wasn't broken.

It's not actually broken, it's just a bit messy.

Making file requests to systems other than my BossNode has to rate as  
the most convoluted process ever but it can be done. Pleeeeez don't  
ask me how :-))

 AA> Apoint and Beemail came really close to being good Windows-GUI programs
 AA> for regular use.

 AA> Apoint was an all-in-one complete point system.  But it turned out to be
 AA> unreliable and crashed or locked up unexpectedly.

I used APoint many years ago but I don't recall having any problems  
with it. The only thing it didn't have was Fido-over-IP but there was  
a plugin for that which worked very well.

Regards,
Martin

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