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From: Dale_Shipp@f1466.n261.z1
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 18:45:02 -0500
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 -=> On 01-08-06  09:34,  Jean Parrot <=-
 -=> spoke to Dale Shipp about BW help <=-

 JP> I am on XP and it does support BW, no reason for W2K not
 JP> working it too. But you will not get away too easy today. When I
 JP> want to save some text from a message on BW, I do an Alt-W and I
 JP> get a prompt that say :

 JP> File to write:
 JP> C:\BWAVE\MSGTEMP.TXT

 JP> I would like to remove that MSGTEMP.TXT and have the saved
 JP> text go directly to that BWAVE folder. Can you give me an easy way
 JP> to change the link to C:\BWAVE ?   As it is, I backspace of the
 JP> MSGTEMP.TXT  and that does the trick.

  I don't know what to advise you.  On my setup, alt-W attempts to print
  the message.  S is the key to save a message.

  In any case, there is a default file name of some sort -- in every
  menu in BW for which that happens, to change the file name I backspace
  over it.

                               Dale Shipp
                  fido_261_1466 (at) comcast (dot) net
                              (1:261/1466)



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