William McBrine wrote to James Bradley, "Re: MM Linux editor preff"

 -=> James Bradley wrote to All <=-

 JB> but when I run in the console, it does the funky ANSII character

 WM>  setfont default8x16

Not quite. I tried to paste to here, but it only shows the highlighted line
shifted to the right by two characters. If I cursor the highlight to the next
line, it too will be shifted to the right. This alone, I could live with, but
for example, when I save a message to text and want to edit the field, the
edits actually occur one characters *right* from where it should be, and during
deletion, the trailing character remains as an artifact. 

I just did another experiment, and if I  into the text on the
"Save As"
prompt, I'll end up some eight or nine characters left of where I should be.
After I cancelled the save, the following numbers remained on the text of the
message I was about to save in red bg, and yellow or orange fg text.

***********************
amd see if the errors one card gives me go away...
    123456
anyway...
*********************** 

Notice the parent directory date:
****
              
              ~/mmail/down, by time
                Packet                  Size    Date
                                              Feb 13 00:20
                GYPSY   .QWK.2          119548  Feb 12 16:56
                GYPSY   .QWK.1           12774  Feb 10 01:17
                GYPSY   .QWK.0         1009908  Feb 08 14:48
                GYPSY   .QWK             94038  Feb 05 11:12

****

Here's another example. Notice the extraneous "u" and
"6" 4 lines from this:
****
MultiMail/Linux v0.45                                                   00:38

 GYPGYPSY.QWK | Unread in Linux, by subject (299)u, by subject6         69%
        Msg#  From            STo              Subject
        6215  Maurice Kinal    Pascal Schmidt  data-losing type bugs
      6218  CHARLES ANGELICH ROY J. TELLASON data-losing type bugs
      6219  CHARLES ANGELICH PASCAL SCHMIDT  data-losing type bugs
        6236  Roy J. Tellason  CHARLES ANGELIC data-losing type bugs
        6243  Paul Rogers      Charles Angelic data-losing type bugs
****

This is what happens when I scroll up and down.  lines up on one
column, and  lines up to the left. There is also a high
ASCII, "j"
with the ^ above, right before the filename that didn't make it to the paste.
Also, I don't think "STo" is what is supposed to be there. <-;
 WM> For some reason it's not actually the default, at least in my
 WM> distro, nor I'm guessing in yours. To make the change
 WM> permanent, you'd have to do something like add that command to
 WM> /etc/rc.d/rc.local.

When the "default8x16" made no difference, I tried the lesser one
(What 8x9 or
something around there.) just to make sure I had affected the right file. I
did. 


... Making it "idiot-proof" will just encourage 'em.
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