Subj : winpoint: FREQ to specific system - how?
To   : August Abolins
From : Martin Foster
Date : Wed May 15 2019 11:19:00

Hello August!

## 14.05.19 at 13:41, Martin Foster wrote to August Abolins:

 MF> [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.

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

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

 MF> Here we go .....

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

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

---------- 8< ----------
 MF> - Double-clicking on any line of text will place that line of text in
 MF>   the "Request" window down near the bottom of the screen.

 MF> - Clear the line of text in the "Request" window by right-clicking on
 MF>   the line of text and then click "Zeile loschen"(Delete line). You
 MF>   may have to do that twice to clear the line of text.
---------- 8< ----------

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

 MF> - Click the "Hinzufugen" button and the filename should move into the
 MF>   window above(that's the one where the line of text was).
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                    No longer applies.

 MF> - Click the "Speichern" button.

 MF> - Click the "OK" button.

 MF> - Close the request editor.

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

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

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

Update .....

After further testing, the two steps enclosed between my two snip  
markers above are not required. As a consequence, the bit about  
"that's the one where the line of text was" no longer applies either.

Regards,
Martin

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