>Subject: Questions
>2) How do i use an external mail editor to compose an outgoing
>message? Cannot find any info on this..
Hi Bjorn,
there are basically two ways to do this:
a) External editor
If you just like to use a different editor to write your messages
you may want to replace Arachne's internal editor with another one
that is quicker or more convenient. This would not consider only
composing of mail, but any editing task that turns up (cf. key F4).
For older versions of Arachne, there is an add-on (APM) on the
download page. But I think the 1.70 has an even more simple way of
selecting an external editor. At the very end of Options-Preferences
page there is a space to fill in an editor's name. I have never tried
this, but it would be interesting to know whether it works.
BE> This message is written with an external editor (Norton Edit).
Very external because I left Arachne saving Bj�rn (�= alt 248)
his question by using the P key. A copy is now -4prt.txt
I loaded -4prt.txt into Norton Edit. When finished I load it
back into Arachne mail with cntrl R (read file).
As you use national characters, I would like to add one remark: Even
if Arachne's internal editor seems to be slow and simple it offers
a fantastic support of any font set and any keyboard definition.
This is why I (writing mainly Czech and German) have not replaced
Arachne's editor, but I am just switching between several ones.
Q? How does one activate this support? Is it possible to change the
keyboard definition? Bastiaan
BE> -4prt.txt can also be used for caracterset conversion before or
after an external editor is used.
b) using a mail client together with Arachne
As e-mail mainly concerns text, it may be useful for someone to use
still another program for composing, reading, sorting and archiving
of email offline. Arachne does a great good job online. She is very
versatile in sending and receiving messages with different e- mail
accounts. And she is able to display the messages with embedded
links so that you can "click" on them and get right at the linked
webpages. Other features of Arachne's email components have often be
criticised and may appear insufficient to those who have a lot of
email traffic, mailing lists etc.
In this case you may consider to use a better program together with
Arachne. The critical point is that it produces outgoing mail in
files with extension .TBS and reads incoming mail with extension
..CNM. I have been using Pegasus Mail for DOS (PMmail) for quite a
while together with Arachne. I can start PMail from inside Arachne
or independently to read and compose, then I use Arachne online to
send, receive and preview incoming mail. If you are interested in
how to set this up, ask me by private mail. I shall give you the
details.
Regards
Christof Lange
BE> Yeh, .TBS and .CNM makes storing and sorting not easy.
More trouble is made (IMHO) by the numbered suffix. This does
not give any information about the content of the file nor is
it easy to remember.
When I read the mail I reply from the Inbox, delete the not
interesting stuff and store anything to be kept to e.g. the
\download directory.
Sorting and storing is done (often) with Norton commander out of
Arachne.
To ease things a lot can be done with MIME in Arachne.
For instance I added under "aliases and standard file types" the
following line:
file/.doc |@$eview.exe $1
If there is a .doc file in the inbox (attachment) which at present is
a M$ Word document... view.exe is activated and the output shown
on the Arachne screen. Before this I had to close Arachne, start
windoze, open Word (or click with Windows Commander) and finaly I
was able to view the Word text.
Back to Arachne? First close windoze, restart the PC and open Arachne
again! (Dos prompt in windows is of no use for Arachne; this does not
free enough memmory.)
Of coarse other programs can be installed in Arachne this way.
Best regards, Bastiaan
PS: I use this editor in 437 caracter mode, so I see a "degree"
caracter on the screen with alt 248 (�).
Degree in LATIN-1 and CP-850 is probably alt 176 (�) = graphical
in CP-437. Lets see what happens after reading this file back to
Arachne without converting.
-- Arachne V1.61, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
