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to: AUGUST ABOLINS
from: MARTIN FOSTER
date: 2021-01-19 11:33:00
subject: OXP: areas list = EASY!

Hello August!

*** Sunday 17.01.21 at 07:47, August Abolins wrote to All:

 AA> I recently added another Boss system to OpenXP.

What, another one :-)

 AA> Its arealist management system delivered the list in three parts:

 AA> URL: https://susepaste.org/71091834

Like the snapshot, very neat and tidy.

 AA> But with OpenXP's "w" option to write the message contents to a
 AA> file, I could select each message and produce one file
 AA> "areas.txt" that OpenXP that could then "import". From that, I
 AA> would have the entire list of areas to select from in one
 AA> operation.

Never tried that myself.

 AA> Furthermore, OpenXP's "select areas" function is pretty smart;
 AA> it doesn't care on what column an areaname begins (unlike what
 AA> Winpoint seems to need to know).

 AA> OpenXP = +1

+1 to that :-))

Regards,
Martin

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