Subj : winpoint: FREQ to specific system - how?
To   : August Abolins
From : Martin Foster
Date : Tue May 14 2019 13:41:00

Hello August!

## 12.05.19 at 17:27, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

[snip]
 AA> Ooops, sorry.  Crashmail (netmail), in general works fine.  I meant that
 AA> I can't seem to direct a FREQ (nnnnnnnn.REQ) to a specific system.  The
 AA> controls in German confuse me, I guess.

WinPoint doesn't support that feature but it can be tricked into  
thinking that it does :-))

The trick is ugly, it's not elegant and it must rank as the most  
convoluted process ever but it does work.

Here we go .....

You need to find a message from the person to whom you wish to request  
a file(s) from. If you can't find one, well, ummmmm, that's the end of  
it and there's no need to go any further. Assuming that you've found  
one, proceed as follows .....

- Right-click anywhere on the message in the viewer and click "Request  
  files from Message". This takes you into the request editor.

- Double-clicking on any line of text will place that line of text in   
  the "Request" window down near the bottom of the screen.

- Clear the line of text in the "Request" window by right-clicking on   
  the line of text and then click "Zeile loschen"(Delete line). You     
  may have to do that twice to clear the line of text.

- Click in the "Neuer Dateiname" field and enter the filename you wish  
  to request.

- Click the "Hinzufugen" button and the filename should move into the   
  window above(that's the one where the line of text was).

- Click the "Speichern" button.

- Click the "OK" button.

- Close the request editor.

- Now look in the outbound window and your request should be sitting    
  in the outbound queue.

- Double-click the .req file and the "Poll Node" window should pop up.

- Check all the details and if you're happy with them, click the "Ok"   
  button, otherwise, click the "Abbruch(Abort)" button.

Have fun :-))

Regards,
Martin

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