Scheduler - programs won't start?

2003-09-06 Thread Jan-Arild Løkstad
Hello all, I've been playing with V2 for a couple of days on my test machine (running Win98 4.10.1998), but can't for the life of me figure out how to use the scheduler to start a program. I've followed instructions in the help file to the letter, but programs just won't start; nothing happens.

Re: Please release BatNews!

2002-06-25 Thread Jan-Arild Løkstad
[Nick Andriash] I think RITLabs would do well to design a nice Newsreader that can take advantage of TB's inherent qualities such as filtering and her very robust Editor. TB's editor is the current state of the art. There is simply nothing better out there, and I think I've tried

Re: The return of the upgrade problem

2001-03-19 Thread Jan-Arild Løkstad
Hello Thomas, Monday, March 19, 2001, 3:38:00 AM, you wrote: I cannot help you, but please give us some system information. We can take it from there. Before I wrote the message I said to myself: Jan-Arild, the list members are not second-sighted, so do not forget to give them

Re: The return of the upgrade problem

2001-03-19 Thread Jan-Arild Løkstad
Hello Serge, Monday, March 19, 2001, 12:23:53 PM, you wrote: do you have some other Delphi/C++Builder applications on your system? Oops! That was a hard nut to crack for me Serge :) At the risk of revealing my ignorance, I'm sorry to say that I have absolutely no idea. I use Forte

Re: The return of the upgrade problem

2001-03-19 Thread Jan-Arild Løkstad
Hello Ming-Li, Monday, March 19, 2001, 4:36:20 PM, you wrote: I see you're posting with v.1.51, so the upgraded version does work after you reboot the system, or...? Yes it does work. It installs correctly, as nearly as can be seen. Did you check the system before this second try. At

The return of the upgrade problem

2001-03-18 Thread Jan-Arild Løkstad
Hello All, When I upgraded from 1.48f to 1.51 less than a week ago, I lived through the "horrors" of the upgrade problem again. Once the TB! splash screen appears, the system froze and had to be powered down. Ctrl-Alt-Delete didn't help. I always create a backup with Drive Image prior

Re: Dispatching

2001-03-14 Thread Jan-Arild Løkstad
Hello Marck, Wednesday, March 14, 2001, 8:39:10 PM, you wrote: The "Dispatcher" is a sub-system which reads all message headers from the server and provides an interface for you to decide the fate of each message it finds there: Download, delete, delete without downloading, leave for

Re: Printing

2000-10-21 Thread Jan-Arild Løkstad
Hello Jason, Saturday, October 21, 2000, 4:10:08 AM, you wrote: Why doesn't the Printer ICON work in the bat? Good question. It has actually never worked for me I am having the same problem. The print button has never worked for me either when I try to print to one of my printers

Re: Strange things when replying

2000-08-18 Thread Jan-Arild Løkstad
Hello tracer, Thursday, August 17, 2000, 1:55:55 AM, you wrote: seems to me that it does make sense. It sure does tracer. I guess I have to put the blame on my bad command of English. What I _think_ I say, is not necessarily always what I _mean_ to say. Sorry about that. I think you guys

Re: Strange things when replying

2000-08-16 Thread Jan-Arild Løkstad
Hello Thomas, Wednesday, August 16, 2000, 5:57:10 AM, you wrote: Always, but not with all messages. The prob may be reproducible if the messages does not fill a screen, but some longer messages are effected too. Well, all I can say is that it does here. I tested this with 120 messages last

Re: Strange things when replying

2000-08-16 Thread Jan-Arild Løkstad
Hello Curtis, Wednesday, August 16, 2000, 1:11:02 PM, you wrote: Makes me wonder if where the %cursor macro is placed is what creates the problem, rather than whether or not you use the %cursor macro at all. You are pretty good at wondering Curtis :) I did put the %Cursor macro back into my

Re: Strange things when replying

2000-08-15 Thread Jan-Arild Løkstad
Hello Januk, Tuesday, August 15, 2000, 8:08:12 AM, you wrote: In essence, what I found is that the scroll bars are calculated on the amount of text in the message. Have you noticed if you go to the beginning of these replies, then the text all fits into one screen? It doesn't seem to make

Re: Strange things when replying

2000-08-15 Thread Jan-Arild Løkstad
Hello Graham, Tuesday, August 15, 2000, 8:16:29 AM, you wrote: Exactly the same here Jan-Arild. I wonder why?? A poor consolation I know, but you are not alone feeling this way Graham. I am totally lost. What is even more frustrating is that I am not in possession of the special knowledge

Strange things when replying

2000-08-14 Thread Jan-Arild Løkstad
Hello All, Pressing the "Reply"-button opens up the "Message Editor Window" with the quote prefix preceding each lineas if you didn't know :) The strange thing is that only the last 4-5 lines of the message to which I am replying is visible in the editor. The rest of the original message,

Re: Strange things when replying

2000-08-14 Thread Jan-Arild Løkstad
Hello Thomas, Monday, August 14, 2000, 12:08:31 PM, you wrote: Yep; not with every message but a selected few. I have not foudn a pattern. Neither have I, not in TB!, but I have found something that _might_ be related. I am no computer guru so the following may sound stupid, and is just a

Re: Strange things when replying

2000-08-14 Thread Jan-Arild Løkstad
Hello Thomas, Monday, August 14, 2000, 5:01:51 PM, you wrote: In all the user manuals that came with my PC, one is entitled: A.G.P. S3 Trio 3D/2X Video Accelerator. Is that it? I also found a file called VGA.DRV in the c:\windows\system directory, but don't know how to find out more. I'm

Re: Strange things when replying

2000-08-14 Thread Jan-Arild Løkstad
Hello Jamie, Monday, August 14, 2000, 4:54:14 PM, you wrote: It's Linux pretending to be Windowsg Hehe. I have Linux installed on one of my harddrives, so maybe Linux is the "source of infection". Seriously though that is a very weird problem that I have never encountered. It sure is

Re: Strange things when replying

2000-08-14 Thread Jan-Arild Løkstad
Hello Nick, Monday, August 14, 2000, 4:35:56 PM, you wrote: Time to come back to this side of the looking glass, Alice. LOL. It sounds like a fairytale, I know, but I am in fact telling the truth. I have absolutely no idea why my system doesn't crash, but there has to be something seriously

Columns out of view?

2000-05-11 Thread Jan-Arild Løkstad
Hello all, If I expand threads (I thread by subject), all the columns drift to the right. This results in columns going partially out of view. Anything I can do to prevent this because I find it a bit annoying? I am an old and absent-minded kind of person :) so I might very well be wrong, but I

Printing of quoted text in bold?

2000-04-22 Thread Jan-Arild Løkstad
Hello all, Several people, on some of the mailing lists I'm on, have the "nasty habit" of inserting a space in front of the quote character. The result of this is that the text doesn't print in bold as I have chosen in the font layout in TB! My printer is a BW Laser, so the color options doesn't

Re: Scripting in v2.0 - the possibilities?

2000-04-17 Thread Jan-Arild Løkstad
Hello Dieter, Sunday, April 16, 2000, 11:38:18 PM, you wrote: Unfortunately it will neither boil eggs for breakfast and toast your bread nor will it fill in the forms for your income tax... LOL Sorry, can't resist. Silly questions deserves "silly" answers. :) Guess we all have to sit

Re: .htx instead of .html?

2000-04-13 Thread Jan-Arild Løkstad
Hello Thomas, Thursday, April 13, 2000, 4:23:29 AM, you wrote: My guess is that the sender sends your .htx files. That was my first thought also. In order to trying to make this out I installed TB!, Outlook Express and FrontPage98 on another machine I use solely for testing purposes, and sent

.htx instead of .html?

2000-04-12 Thread Jan-Arild Løkstad
Hello all, When I receive a HTML message, the HTML part has a .htx file extension instead of .html I do not have any problems viewing the mails, but I just wonder why the .htx extension is used instead of .html In Win98's file associations, .htx is described as "Internet Database Connector HTML

Re[2]: How to open attached files with .EML file extensions?

2000-03-14 Thread Jan-Arild Løkstad
Hello Tony, Tuesday, March 14, 2000, 2:22:47 PM, you wrote: I do have here an attachment that has been sent to me with a .ged extension that I can't open if anyone knows what program that's associated with? That must be a GEDCOM-file. All genealogy programs have their own ways of

Numbers and square brackets in subject?

2000-03-10 Thread Jan-Arild Løkstad
Hello all, I have chosen to "View threads by subject", and a thread may look like this: Text Re: Text Re[2]: Text Re: Text Re[2]: Text Re[3]: Text What does the numbers in square brackets mean? Maybe I am stupid, but I just can't figure this out. Anyone who have some time to spare to explain

Problem with printing

2000-02-26 Thread Jan-Arild Løkstad
Hello all, If I click the "Print"-button on the toolbar, nothing happens. Printing by choosing "Print" on the "Message"-menu works just fine. Anyone who have any ideas about what may cause this? Printer: Panasonic KX-P6300 TIA -- Best regards, Jan-Arild Using The Bat! 1.39 under Windows 98