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Skriven 2010-10-27 21:36:00 av Ed Vance (3845.windowsa)
     Kommentar till en text av August Abolins
Ärende: QWK REP blues..
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Hi August,
On <Sat, 23 Oct 10>, you wrote me:

 AA> Ed Vance -> HOLGER GRANHOLM said..

 EV>> When I get through this mail packet I may already see what I
 EV>> need to do to get comfortable with Sempoint, but as of now each 
 EV>> time I
 EV>> start it up, I have to Import an old qwk packet and all it does 
 EV>> is add all
 EV>> the same messages to the database it uses.

 EV>> After Sorting the messages by Date/Time today I have four copies
 EV>> of every message.

 AA> The problem is that you are actually importing old packets over and
 AA> over again - hence you are getting copies.   You do NOT need to do 
 AA> that.  You just need to 
 AA> Import any NEW packet  - ONCE.

I have been doing that now that I know what to do.

 AA> Then the messages are retained and maintained in Sempoint's database.

I can't figure out how to resume or continue from where I left off when I 
haven't finished reading all the messages in a QWK packet that I Imported into 
Sempoints database.

All I can do is download another QWK packet, Import it, and start reading new 
messages in the new packet.

Sempoints Read screen just shows me the Areas that the new packet contained.

I have kept the old QWK packets in case I want to quit playing with Sempoint 
and go back to SLMR and the procedure I used with it for saving messages.

Every time I think of a Search Word to use in Sempoints Help, it is not found 
among the list of words the help file will help me with.

That is why I am still asking You questions about how to use it.

I have tried using its Help file but most times I am just beating my head 
against the wall, I am not confortable with it yet but I will try some more 
before giving up.

 EV>> I've tried doing maintenance on the database but haven't found
 EV>> an "easy way" to get rid of the duplicate messages yet.

 AA> Just DELETE the duplicate messages manually for now.  Then promptly
 AA> discard your old .QWK files so that you are not tempted to re-import 
 AA> them.

I tried to Edit the Default Template to get rid of the "Bye bye" Andrea put in 
there but it is Read Only and won't allow me to change the default template.

I looked at the file in LIST.COM and EDIT.COM and saw it uses some Shifted 
Spaces in the text, I suppose to seperate fields and the different templates in
the file.

I suppose I will just have to edit out the "Bye bye" thingy in each message 
that I write using Sempoint.

  Ed

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