IAN HOARE wrote the following to CHARLES JENNINGS, and I quote (in part):

 CJ>>    Have you tried creating a shortcut to Pedit in Mulitmail's
 CJ>> default folder and not using a path at all?

 IH> Errrmmmm. I'm trying to get it to work with Textpad not Pedit. But the
 IH> principle would be the same. Could you expand a little.... Multimail 
 IH> doesn't have a "default folder" as such, merely a home
directory. Do 
 IH> you mean something like textpad.lnk in multimail's home directory?

   Yes.  A lot of software will look in its home directory if it
can't find a file it needs.  Anyway, entering only textpad.lnk in
the configuration file should get around the eight character limit
if that is the problem.  BTW, "folder" is what windows calls a
directory ;-).  So the default folder is the same thing as the home
directory.

    Good luck, 
      Charles

... No smoke or sparks... Hmm... Must be a software problem.
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