Hello Patrick
On 10-Feb-00, you wrote:
> On 09-Feb-00, Mike Leavitt wrote:
>
>>> messages' from the menu does the same. The only way I can get them
>>> out is to select Message/Edit and click on the `Send' bar in the
>>> edit window.
>>
>> If you are hitting store inatead of queue or send, this would be the
>> expected result.
> How does one hit `Queue'? Mine has no `Queue' button in the message
> editor window. It has Send, Store and Cancel.
That's bizarre, that was supposed to have been fixed as far backas 1.1
for Miami and never happened with Genesis. The only way I can get it
to do that now is to run TermiteTCP. MDII is supposed to show send
when online and queue when off.
>> You have to re-edit stored messages to send them out.
>
> And what on earth is the use of `Store'? What a damn useless button!
I never use it, but its object is to allow one to compose a response,
decide to finish it later, and keep it from being sent out prematurely
before re-editing.
> Another thing that seems to be broken is the way the text editor
> trashes quoted text. If lines exceed the preset 70 columns by the
> prefixing of `greater than' sign, it doesn't reflow them properly, and
> every (short) second line has the `greater that' sign missing.
This only happens here if I try to edit the quoted text. I can delete,
but if I edit it goes to hell.
> The only way I have found to fix that is to edit in GoldEd and use a
> script to strip the `greater than' signs, reflow and format to 65
> columns and then replace the `greater than' signs. It takes only a
> moment, but it's still annoying having to do it.
This is what I do, if I want to edit the quoted text.
> I'm trying hard to convince myself that the problems I have with MD2
> are simply that I am not used to the way it works, but it's becoming
> harder to believe that all the time. I never had this trouble with
> YAM, nor any of the QWK/BW programs I used, nor any Fidonet point
> programs. Oh, if only Spot could do newsgroups!! That is a program
> they should all be modelled on.
I wish I knew you are not getting the queue button, that is really
strange. It helps with Miami if you check down when off, and in MDII
there is a setting to autocheck for TCP/IP stack on line -- last
section I think, and possible hidden. If it is not checked, you may,
come to think of it, get exactly the results you describe, in fact, I
did. This is in MDII's own settings, and not in MUI, BTW. Sometime in
1.3 or one of the betas, Ollie eliminated the auto check and put in
this setting (in 1.3.20, I think), and I had to find the setting and
change it, because MDII had reverted to pre 1.1 behavior, exactly as
you describe.
Regards
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Mike Leavitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] + team Amiga +
