Barry,
I also use TAPCIS for my mail program and, like you, I like the way it saves
messages. I don't know if there is a Windoze version of TAPCIS that you
could take with you on your trips, but, if there is one and if it would fit
on a floppy, you could access Compuserve from the Windoze computer. When I
go out of town, I set up, sometimes several, TAPCIS.INI with the Compuserve
access number for that area. For example, if I am going to San Diego, I
will copy TAPCIS.INI to SDGTAPCI.INI and change the access number to a San
Diego number. When I get to San Diego I will REName my current TAPCIS.INI to
TSNTAPCI.INI (for Tucson's access number), and copy SDGTAPCI.INI to
TAPCIS.INI.
Otherwise, you might look for some Windoze offline readers on Simtel or Garbo
or some other site.
Roger Turk
Tucson, Arizona USA
Barry Kaufman wrote:
>>I use DOS TAPCIS on Compuserve to download my mail. It saves all mail
messages, one after the other, in a long text file. Multiple messages
in "majordomo" lists that I subscribe to are strung along in that file
just as if each was an individual message. My style is to use a text
editor to kill, copy (append) out to other files, etc. the mail
messages. That is how I operate most efficiently. If I get a binary
attachment in text form, I simply UUdecode it.
I just activated a POPmail port to Compuserve so when I travel, I can
access messages on any PC with a browser. I had intended to save
messages to a text file (browser save to file command). But, I see that
all messages must be accessed individually and multiple messages in a
list have to be individually accessed as well by clicking an icon for
each. It is a pain mousing through dozens of messages, one at a time to
save each to a text file, and then joining all those files together.
Question: Is there a POP/IMAP web site, or a small WIN32 POP/IMAP or
TELNET or otherwise mail program that I can use to assess my Compuserve
mailbox, and that will save all messages to a single text file like
TAPCIS does? I will be calling from a WIN32 PC that has internet access
but not direct dial-up access to Compuserve.<<
