Dale Mentzer wrote:
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> On 10 Feb 00 at 22:21, Clarence Verge wrote:
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> >>Here is where my past deeds come back to haunt me I guess. <fg>
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> You must have been very bad, Clarence. ;)
Hi Dale, Michael, All;
Trying to find out why downloads of the new hotlsman.apm work for others and
not me, I changed "ESC Back" to "ESC Ignore" because the effect I was getting
was EXACTLY the same as hitting ESC after sending or downloading mail.
The last action gets repeated.
Now, in the case of mail, L.D has said that the re-upload cannot take place
because there is nothing left to upload. But just because this makes sense
is no reason to expect that's what happens. This is experimental software in
a GUI. Anything might happen.
The repeat mail DOWNLOAD is another matter however. It DOES try to take place
and that costs me money because the ISP where I get my mail charges me a one
minute minimum every time I check my mail via an outside source instead of
dialling in to him. If I hit the "ESC" key trying to get out of my inbox
after a download, there goes another minute. :-((
In fact, there is no way back to the previous page from mail upload or download
except using a hotkey. I assume that cntrlLEFTARROW works the same as ESC in my
setup but I never tried it.
Why use two keys when one beautifully (deliberately) positioned key will do ?
ESC ignore did NOT help the download looping but I did get some interesting
results anyway:
First, APM.exe is as supplied with Arachne 1.6b1 - 17972 bytes, Dec 24,1998.!
Second, I have 81Megs free space on the disk.
Third, on a test download of 6 APMs, one WORKED !. The ~90Kb IRC.apm installed.
Hotlsman, Spkrwav, Ttf2fnt, Htmto922, and Fedit LOOPED.
Fourth, Downloading NON APMs seems to work.
History.txt and DOSPPPD.zip did not loop when finished downloading.
With dospppd.zip I got the option to save it in \DOWNLOAD.
With History.txt I got no such option and it would be nice if ALL downloads
went AUTOMATICALLY to \DOWNLOAD (preferred) or we got the dialog box.
- Clarence Verge
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