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Skriven 2013-10-04 20:48:00 av Ed Vance (12152.windowsa)
    Kommentar till text 421 av Holger Granholm (2:20/228)
Ärende: Re: XP & Vista ???s
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08-18-13 11:30 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: XP & Vista ???s

 HG> @MSGID: <52440F02.12099.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>
 HG> In a message dated 08-16-13, Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:

 EV>Everytime I tried a variation of adding a TEXT FILE in
 EV>MM49's Reply Editor window, and then Exited, MM49 would
 EV>Disappear,  ZAP  GONE    HISTORY

 HG> Simple, you're not using what you have. If you had specified
 HG> the TSE or QEdit that you have as the reply editor in the
 HG> MMAIL.RC file you would not have had any difficulty importing
 HG> or copying text.

 EV>It is a nice program but I normally don't need 'Bells and Whistles'
 EV>when I write messages in BBS Echos, so that's why I use EDIT.COM
 EV>for my regular uses.

 HG> If copying or inserting a text is considered bell and whistle
 HG> you are barking up the wrong tree.

Holger,

The B&W's I was thinking about in a text editor are things such as:
Justifing text to the Right or Left or Centering the text,
Using different fonts and being able to Underline or use Italics.
Things like that, to me, are unnecessary for writing BBS msgs.

Right now I can't remember if QEdit does any of that or not.

 EV>SLRM allowed me to Insert a Text File into a message,
 EV>but doing it in MM49DOS doesn't work the same way.

 HG> The only use I have for EDIT.COM is to print out a text
 HG> containing umlaut characters used in Europe. These texts are
 HG> normally written on an OS/2 computer. If written in Windows the
 HG> text files are very much larger because of the Meta data
 HG> Windows puts in them.

 HG> All the other M$ editors convert those characters to
 HG> unidentifiable characters.

I'm not sure if MM correctly shows umlaut character or not.
I don't mind seeing them in someones message(s) but I don't use them.

 HG> But edit.com has one limit, it can't print out to an USB port.
 HG> My Thinkpad does have e parallel port and my printer does also
 HG> have a Centronics connector in addition to the USB socket and I
 HG> have used computers long enough to have parallel printer
 HG> cables.

I haven't tried printing from EDIT to a USB printer but ages ago
Jeff Guerdat helped me use a USB AIO printer with SLMR by using the
NET USE command.

I use a .BAT file that is in my PATH called NETUSE.BAT .
It looks like this:

NET USE
NET USE LPT2: /DELETE
NET USE
NET USE LPT2 //[COMPUTER NAME]/[PRINTER NAME] /PERSISTANT:YES
NET USE

Note: My .BAT file is in lower case instead of UPPER CASE,
      I used UC tonight to make it a bit easier to read.

I don't know if OS/2 has a NET USE command, if it does try it out.

It does the job here when I tell SLMR to print to LPT2 the job goes
to the USB AIO Printer.

I never have tried printing from MM49DOS but if you want me to
I'll try doing it in MM.

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