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echo: points
to: AUGUST ABOLINS
from: MARTIN FOSTER
date: 2020-05-05 20:34:00
subject: winpoint: 1:1/1

Hello August!

*** Monday 04.05.20 at 09:56, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

 AA>>> When I drop in the archived nodelists into the DistribNL, WinPoint
 AA>>> magically unpacks them.

 MF>> I've never seen that happen here ?

 AA> HUH?  Of course you have.

See below .....

 AA> It's even documented, by you.  ;)

Where?

 AA> While WinPoint is loaded and running, and I drag and drop a noldelist
 AA> archive from the inbound directory to the DistribNL direcory, the
 AA> NODELIST.Z## file is automatically replaced by its unpacked equivalent
 AA> (and the original archive is gone).

..... I've just tried that and absolutely nothing happened.

 AA>>> WinPoint may be the better GUI-based point program compared to Apoint,

 MF>> Yes, it's a much more aesthetically pleasing GUI but it's such a great
 MF>> shame that all the bugs and issues will never be fixed. Perhaps someone
 MF>> should waft $$$$$$'s under Tim's nose ;)

 AA> I don't know who might have these wafts of $$$$$$'s that you mention,
 AA> especially at this covid/lockdown/stay-home time.

Perhaps there's a "money bags" lurking in a dark corner LOL!

Regards,
Martin

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