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Skriven 2010-11-24 18:23:00 av Ed Vance (4113.windowsa)
     Kommentar till en text av August Abolins
Ärende: Sempoint
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Hi August,
On <Mon, 22 Nov 10>, you wrote me:

 AA> Ed Vance -> August Abolin said..

 EV>> I've learned IF I open a new QWK packet in SEM while
 EV>> USING an Administrator User Account, SEM will retain the 
 EV>> Areas
 EV>> when it is started up again.

 EV>> I can then go back to my normal Limited User Account in
 EV>> XP and start SEM and still see the Areas on the Area 
 EV>> List.
 EV>> ;-) ;-)

 AA> Hopefully you don't need to open SEM twice this way now that
 AA> you are using "Run as.. (admin)".   I couldn't get "Run As.. 
 AA> (admin)" to cooperate for me when I 

I just open SEM once now that I learned how paticular it is about desiring an 
Admin account user privileges(sp?) to be used if IT wants to behave its self 
for the user.

 AA> was using Quickbooks.  Everytime I set it that way, it would
 AA> forget the setting the next time I needed to launch Quickbooks 
 AA> from a user's account.

Computers only do what the Programmer(s) told it to do.    ;-)

 EV>> The other day when I grabbed a QWK packet, this echo
 EV>> didn't have any new messages in it, so it wasn't in the 
 EV>> Area
 EV>> List.

 EV>> Today when I Imputed todays packet, the WIN95 echo had
 EV>> messages in it but the Windows echo didn't, so I can read
 EV>> and write to this echo now.

I'm only missing One echo I'm subscribed to, it's a Local Echo and I "thinkTM" 
I know how to get it into SEMs Areaa List.

To get the FIDO Windows Echo in SEM I had to Unsubscribe to it, and then later 
on I Subscribed to it an got it back in the Areas List.

I'll do the same trick with the Local Echo and see if that works.

 AA> The packet standard is such that every packet contains a list
 AA> of echoes that you are subscribed to.  Importing the packet 
 AA> should populate your SEM database 
 AA> with those echoes/areas whether they contain messages or not.
 AA> That should also provide the ability to write to supposedly 
 AA> "empty" echo that you are subscribed 
 AA> to.

It didn't work that way here for me, even when I started using RUN AS.

Once a Echo is IN the Areas List it hasn't vanished, so far.  ;-)

 EV>> On Capitol City Online BBS this Area is called WINDOWSA,
 EV>> the FIDO WINDOWS Area is called WINDOWSB.

 AA> Yes.. each BBS can assign new labels to the official echo
 AA> areas if they choose.
 AA>  But SEM keeps each BBSes echo separate from another BBSes
 AA> echo of the same name.

I've noticed the different Sub-Directories for Capitol City Online and Doc's 
Place messages.

 EV>> I'm hoping that imputing QWK packets in SEM using the
 EV>> Administrator Account will APPEND Areas with new messages
 EV>> to the Areas List.

 AA> It should cooperate nicely. Once SEM is populated with the
 AA> areas that you have subscribed to at the BBS level, they 
 AA> should always be listed in SEM until you 
 AA> delete the area manually.

There are several Echos I have subscribed to that haven't had any new messages 
in them since I Subscribed to them, hopefully One Day someone will write a 
message in those echos and I will see it POP UP on SEMs Areas List.

Thanks for reccommending Sempoint, It's been an experience!    ;-)

  Ed


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