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to: Paul Markham
from: Roy McNeill
date: 1994-04-15 00:33:32
subject: ppoint

On (11 Apr 94) Paul Markham wrote to Roy McNeill...



 RM> A few differences with Bluewave that I'm finding irritating - it

 RM> can't sort an echo at all (I greatly prefer sorting by subject, the

 RM> current setup has me pecking all over the place), and it behaves

 RM> very strangely when I try to *reread* personal mail - it shows the

 RM> netmail ok, but it goes real weird when it finds mail to me in

 RM> avtech.



 PM> Roy,

 PM> if you're running OS/2 then I've got a program that will sort the

 PM> inbound packets into subject order. If you're running DOS, then you're

 PM> out of luck as my program is too memory hungry to run in 640K. I guess

 PM> I could compile it with GNU 386 and it would probably run under DOS.



Not got OS/2. Got Dos5 and dv. Dv makes the base mem requirements a

bit tighter.



However, if you're willing to part with the msgbase specs, I'll

cheerfully write my own sorter. This is beginning to be a pest. I'd

started this reply a few days ago, and it took me some time to find

it again tonight to finish it.



Cheers







--- PPoint 1.80


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