Hello all,
Wednesday, April 11, 2001, A Curtis Martin wrote:
MS 2) Drag and Drop attachments
MS I often receive messages containing more than one attachment of which
MS I need to forward only one or several but not all to someone else. In
MS order to do so, it would be nice if one could open
Anticipating a new computer for quite some time now, I archived a few
messages on how to move TB! from one machine to another. Believe it or
not, I've even read the FAQ.
Well, the new machine is here. I'm going from a Pentium 75 to an AMD
1Ghz. Slight improvement, eh? What I'm not sure of is if
Hello Derek,
Also, I normally don't use the internal backup routine. Instead, I
just export the registry settings, and them zip everything into one
large zip file as part of my normal maintenance.
That was the way I used to bring my TB from win98 to w2k and it worked.
A friend took the
Hi all,
if i , in the "view"menu tick "memo autoview" ,this setting is lost
after restarting.
If this is a bug ,would there be a way to manually alter the
registry?
Thank you in advance
Linda
using Windows 2000
THEBATVERSION 1.51
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Hey A,
Tuesday, April 10, 2001, 7:42:45 PM, you wrote:
AS (not before). But without having the email addresses in the to-field,
AS I cannot print the mail. Is there a higher meaning in that behavior?
ACM That's a most peculiar requirement on your part. vbg This is most likely
ACM a bug that
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On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 06:47:25 -0400, dMb contributed this to our collective
wisdom:
d Well, the new machine is here. I'm going from a Pentium 75 to an AMD
d 1Ghz. Slight improvement, eh? What I'm not sure of is if I can use the
d same procedures
about the moving of TheBat mail archive:
Which is the problem ?!
I have saved and moved it arond from Win98/Nt and now 2000 at alst 5
times in these last months...
May be I have no perfectly understand the problem, but all I do to
move is:
1) save the "Mail" folder into thebat! directory
Hello Tim,
AS (not before). But without having the email addresses in the to-field,
AS I cannot print the mail. Is there a higher meaning in that behavior?
ACM don't know if any full release version users wish to confirm whether or
ACM not this problem exists with their installations.
I can
Hello Fabio,
Is there any way easier ?!
I use a batch file to generate a reg file for the to 2 or 3 registry
entries.
Copy the hole TB- Path (with everything in it - address book,
accounts, and so on) to the new PC
and doppelclick the reg files to restore the registry entries on the
new PC.
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Hi Anton,
On 11 April 2001 at 14:04:54 +0200 (which was 13:04 where I live)
Anton Sommer wrote to Tim Musson and made these points:
I can confirm that the same thing is happening here. (An "Edit Mail
Message" popup with a red circle/white X
Dear Anton,
AS I use a batch file to generate a reg file for the to 2 or 3 registry
AS entries.
Great !
And how do you make, or how can I make this batch file !?
Thank you
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Hello Anton!
On Wednesday, April 11, 2001 at 1:08:17 PM you wrote:
That was the way I used to bring my TB from win98 to w2k and it worked.
A friend took the other way from w2k to winME and it doesn't worked.
I have no experience to do this from
Hello Fabio again,
I forgot to say, you have to install the new TB on the new PC.
And than my procedure works.
*But* the better (and correct way) is what Serge wrote in his answer.
Someday, anything can change in the registrie or TB will use ini
files for the parameters. So my description can
Hello Dierk,
DH On Wednesday, April 11, 2001 at 1:08:17 PM you wrote:
That was the way I used to bring my TB from win98 to w2k
and it worked. A friend took the other way from w2k to
winME and it doesn't worked. I have no experience to do
this from win95.
DH AFAIR it was discussed more than
Hello Serge,
As for me, I wouldn't play with registry import/export
between Win9x/NT4/W2K. I guess it may end up in a rather
specific kind of entertainment:( Install and restore
strategy is much more reliable IMHO.
I corrected my recommendation in the other thread.
You are absolutely right.
Hallo Allie,
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 19:17:36 -0500 GMT (11/04/2001, 08:17 +0800 GMT),
A Curtis Martin wrote:
MS 2) Drag and Drop attachments
MS I often receive messages containing more than one attachment of which
MS I need to forward only one or several but not all to someone else. In
MS order
Hallo Anton,
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 01:33:31 +0200 GMT (11/04/2001, 07:33 +0800 GMT),
Anton Sommer wrote:
AS Now I want to use the macro %ACCOUNT="adressbook name" means
AS %ACCOUNT="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" or %ACCOUNT="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and so
AS on, to be independent from the selected account in TB.
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 at 14:57:30 +0200 Anton Sommer wrote:
@regedit /e !_RegSettings_2.reg "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\RIT"
It has been announced officially and repeated several times on the
list but it looks worth repeating since old habits die hard: the
"HKLM\...\RIT" branch is no longer
Hello Ming-Li,
The best guess I could come up with is you don't want to send it out
accidentally before you finalize it after reading it on paper. If
That is the point. It happend a few time and in some cases it was a
little bit embarrassing because of the mistakes.
that's the case, saving
Hello Ming-Li,
Anyway, it's always a good idea to clean up your temp-dir from time
to time. After all, TB isn't the only program that leave things
there.
I don't know, what external program I use.
I just open TB, read my emails, send some emails.
And really nothing else. Attachments -
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Hi Batpersons,
I've recently started to get a high proportion of messages with an
attachment always named message.att,
IIRC, this is an Outlook-generated thing. Can someone please remind me
how it's caused so that I can suggest my Outlook
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Hello Ming-Li!
On Wednesday, April 11, 2001 at 4:54:21 PM you wrote:
The best guess I could come up with is you don't want to send it out
accidentally before you finalize it after reading it on paper. If
that's the case, saving it as "draft"
On April 10, 2001, at 1:19:46 PM, Anton Sommer wrote:
there are dozents of temp files in the temp-dir. They are still there
when I close TB.
Is that usual?
I'm still with Beta 1 because with Beta 3 and 4, there were absolutely
hundreds of temp files left behind... yet with Beta 1 there were
Hello all,
Wednesday, April 11, 2001, Nick Gordon wrote:
I've recently started to get a high proportion of messages with an
attachment always named message.att,
IIRC, this is an Outlook-generated thing. Can someone please remind me
how it's caused so that I can suggest my Outlook
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 at 17:35:17 +0200 Anton Sommer wrote:
I cannot safe it as an draft without filling out the TO-field. And
that is what I'm afraid for. Ok, if I would be more careful it
would be no problem. But sometimes...
I don't really get this. When you save it as a draft (with the
Wednesday, April 11, 2001, 10:57:50 AM, you wrote:
On April 10, 2001, at 1:19:46 PM, Anton Sommer wrote:
there are dozents of temp files in the temp-dir. They are still there
when I close TB.
Is that usual?
I'm still with Beta 1 because with Beta 3 and 4, there were absolutely
hundreds
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 at 17:45:26 +0200 Anton Sommer wrote:
I don't know, what external program I use.
I just open TB, read my emails, send some emails.
And really nothing else. Attachments - seldom.
Do you receive html messages with lots of graphics? They might need
to be saved as temp files
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 at 17:56:13 +0200 Dierk Haasis wrote:
But then I have to open the draft to write the message. With this
operation the message becomes "un-drafted", prone to be sent
accidentally.
Sorry, but I don't get this. What's the problem? When you open a
draft to further edit it,
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 at 08:57:50 -0700 Nick Andriash wrote:
I'm still with Beta 1 because with Beta 3 and 4, there were
absolutely hundreds of temp files left behind...
FWIW, I use beta 4 and there's no temp files in my temp dir, even
though my Bat has been up for many hours.
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Hello Nick!
On Wednesday, April 11, 2001 at 5:46:40 PM you wrote:
I've recently started to get a high proportion of messages with an
attachment always named message.att,
IIRC, this is an Outlook-generated thing. Can someone please remind me
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Hi Ming-Li,
On 11 April 2001 at 09:41:45 -0700 (which was 17:41 where I live)
Ming-Li wrote to Nick Andriash on TBUDL and made these points:
I'm still with Beta 1 because with Beta 3 and 4, there were
absolutely hundreds of temp files left
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Hello Ming-Li!
On Wednesday, April 11, 2001 at 6:38:54 PM you wrote:
Sorry, but I don't get this. What's the problem? When you open a
draft to further edit it, there's no danger that TB would suddenly
send it out. TB would never send out a
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 at 11:26:41 -0500 Dwight A Corrin wrote:
I am using 1.51, not a beta. I just looked in my temp directory,
and found 653 bat related temporary files, all of 0 bites.
This 0-byte thing brought to me an old memory. I'm not sure if it's
(still) true, but I vaguely remember
On Tuesday, April 10, 2001, 1:19:46 PM, Anton Sommer wrote:
AS there are dozents of temp files in the temp-dir. They are still
AS there when I close TB.
AS Is that usual?
Yes. With ver 1.51, I usually get 1000 files! I just checked, and
over the last two weeks or so, I have 1170 temp files
Hello Ming-Li,
Another thought just came to my mind: do you use any anti-virus
program that would check email in the background? I don't use any of
those, so it's just a wild guess.
I use McAfee to check the emails but I never believed that it would
work:-)
No, I closed McAfee, deleted all
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 at 18:53:18 +0200 Anton Sommer wrote:
I clumsy pc-user very often press the wrong button. I want to
press 'save' but I really press 'send'.
Well, that brings us to another area where I want to see TB
improves: user-customizable toolbars. I, for that very reason, want
to
Hi batfans,
I've just started evaluating The Bat 1.51 after 5 years with Eudora
and I'm both impressed and bewildered at the same time.
I'm looking for a manual or for more help on documentation and while
I have read the FAQ, it doesn't seem to cover a lot of basic features.
Aside from the
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 at 17:53:14 +0100 Marck D. Pearlstone wrote:
ML FWIW, I use beta 4 and there's no temp files in my temp dir,
ML even though my Bat has been up for many hours.
Are you certain of that? I have *hundreds*.
I do see them sometimes, but very rarely, and I check (and clean up)
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Hi Ming-Li,
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, at 09:41:45 [GMT -0700] Ming-Li wrote:
I'm still with Beta 1 because with Beta 3 and 4, there were
absolutely hundreds of temp files left behind...
ML FWIW, I use beta 4 and there's no temp files in my temp dir,
Hello Thomas,
AS Now I want to use the macro %ACCOUNT="adressbook name" means
AS %ACCOUNT="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" or %ACCOUNT="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and so
AS on, to be independent from the selected account in TB.
Why don't you just use the %account= macro on the AB level?
%Account="AS",
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On April 11, 2001, at 10:11:40 AM, Gen Kanai wrote:
Aside from the mailing list archives, is there any other manual or
documentation that might be useful to a complete The Bat! newbie? I feel
like I could spend the whole 30 day eval just trying
Hello Peter,
Wednesday, April 11, 2001, 3:04:46 PM, you wrote:
PGH but these mono-spaced fonts (like Courier New) are really driving me
PGH crazy, because they are so unbelivably ugly. When are we going to be
PGH able to use something else than fixed-width fonts in the Bat?
Please
Hej Dave,
DG Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm not sure I understand the point of TT
DG fonts in TB! since TB! sends *only* text emails. Wouldn't the use of TT fonts
DG necessitate RTF or HTML formatted emails?
Not at all. I've seen numerous e-mail clients that send text-only
e-mails (and
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Hi Peter,
On 11 April 2001 at 22:04:46 +0200 (which was 21:04 where I live)
Peter G. Hansen wrote to TBUDL and made these points:
PGH I'm here new here, so bear with me if someone has asked this
PGH question before. The thing is that I
3 Its the only way to achieve 10
plain text WYSIWYG between
dissimilar email client
software.
One thing, is that even though your message appears fine in your editor, it
doesn't mean that the person receiving
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Hi James,
On 11 April 2001 at 18:45:35 -0400 (which was 23:45 where I live)
James Blankenship wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and made these
points:
3 Its the only way to achieve 10
plain text WYSIWYG
Hi Ming-Li,
Wednesday, April 11, 2001, 8:05:58 AM, you wrote:
Anyway, it's always a good idea to clean up your temp-dir from time
to time. After all, TB isn't the only program that leave things
there.
Thanks for the hint!
As a run of the mill computer user I had no idea I should be
Hang on ... by using colour groups you can change the font / colour of
the message lists, so that one's available right now.
Very slick!! Works like a charm. I can live with the folder pane, I don't
look at that as much as the message lists. Thanks!!
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James Blankenship
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi Batpersons,
On or about, Wednesday, April 11, 2001, 4:58:24 PM, we have reason to believe that
Dierk Haasis wrote:
I've recently started to get a high proportion of messages with an
attachment always named message.att,
IIRC, this is an
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Hi Batpersons,
On or about, Wednesday, April 11, 2001, 5:04:59 PM, we have reason to believe that
Marek Mikus wrote:
I've recently started to get a high proportion of messages with an
attachment always named message.att,
IIRC, this is an
Yeah I get up to 500 or so each week, even though they are mostly
0-Byte in size they take up heaps of space on your HDD cause EVERY
file is allocated a "Minimum" size on the HDD and collectively a few
hundred can add up to a lot of wasted space,
this is known as "Slack Space" and your defrag
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On April 11, 2001, at 7:00:01 PM, K wrote:
Yeah I get up to 500 or so each week
This has been going on now for quite some time, and I have personally sent
in a report to RITLabs about the seemingly endless *.tmp files. I wouldn't
call it a bug,
On Wednesday, April 11, 2001, 1:56:56 PM, Marck D. Pearlstone wrote:
PGH When are we going to be able to use something else than
PGH fixed-width fonts in the Bat?
MDP Never, I hope.
I'll second that! I really LIKE these fonts, too, for the reasons you
mentioned, and others. TB makes it
Hello Anton,
ÓÒÅÄÁ, 11 ÁÐÒÅÌÑ 2001 Ç., you wrote:
AS Hello Fabio,
Is there any way easier ?!
AS I use a batch file to generate a reg file for the to 2 or 3 registry
AS entries.
AS Copy the hole TB- Path (with everything in it - address book,
AS accounts, and so on) to the new PC
AS and
Hello Fabio,
And how do you make, or how can I make this batch file !?
I will send it to your private email address.
The name will be TheBatSettings.bat-
Before you use it, you have to remove the - character at the end of
the filename. I put it on the filename so that you first can check it
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