On 2000-01-04 Thomas Mueller said:
>I have used Net Mail DOS 2.00, haven't used 2.12 yet. If you put
>the wrong date in the .TXT file, would the server place its
>date/time in the headers? I didn't notice that aspect. But the
No, the server will not place its own date/time stamp in the header
having the "Date:" line. The server will place its own date/time
stamp on the headers "supra-appending" the headers appearing on the
message itself. (I know that "supra-appending" is not really the
correct term meaning "adding on top of". There was once a discussion
on this list about what the right word is, but I forgot what the
answer was. Somebody please help me out on this one again.)
>To-address in the .WRK file determines the recipient, and it is
>thereby possible to send a message that goes through
>specified in the .WRK file. I once mistyped the second "arachne",
>and people on this list wondered how a message sent to
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] found its way to the list.
This is very interesting information. Thanks for telling me about
it. I can really have some fun with this feature <g>.
>Running DR-DOS 7.03 on Cx486DX2-S at 66 MHz, I typed "date" some
>time after the computer's clock passed the century-transitional
>midnight, and the year showed as 2000. BIOS failed three different
>tests, downloaded from the Internet, for being able to make the
>transition from 1999 to 2000.
OK, so maybe it doesn't make the transition automatically if you set
the date for Dec 31st, 1999 and leave it running until after midnight.
You can get around a little problem like that by simply entering the
DOS "date" command and then entering the correct date as "01-04-2000".
If your computer will not accept that as a valid date, then you have
a Y2K problem. BTW, I have some early neolithic era computers (8088s)
that will accept 21st century dates!
Sam Heywood
Net-Tamer V 1.11.2 - Registered
