03-18-18 21:59 Daryl Stout wrote to ED VANCE about Re: ARRL Requests Expande

 DS> {at}MSGID: 
 DS> Ed,
Howdy! Daryl,


 EV>When I type Alt 219 here, I see #  a Solid Block Character.
 EV>When I type Alt 176 here, I see #  a Dotted Block Character.

 DS>   That doesn't work with Windows Notepad, but it does work with OLX.

I'm using the DOS version of MultiMail, the Windows version of MM uses
Notepad.

I opened Notepad and tried entering a Alt Number and saw nothing show up
on the screen as You said it would.

 DS>   MultiMail kept crashing on me, so I finally gave up on it. I've
 DS> rarely had a problem with OLX. The only thing I don't like is it has a
 DS> shorter tagline size than MultiMail...but, I can live with that.

I quit using SLMR when I learned that MM showed ALL of the lines in long
BBS messages.
I liked using SLMR but it doesn't display all of every BBS Message.
A 152 line message is O.K. with SLMR, anything the writer writes after that
isn't shown.

Does OLX end messages as SLMR does?
Didn't both Programs come from the same Company.

I also liked MM being able to save Taglines longer than 57 characters.
I noticed when I used SLMR that Taglines in messages longer than 57 had
the end of them cut off when I Added them to SLMR's TAGLINE.MR file.

I have had a problem using MM when Mike Powell sends a message to Me in
a local echo on His BBS.
I then use SLMR to read His message to me when I get a .QWK packet
containing one of those messages.

Otherwise I'm happy using MM, I occasionally use MM WIN when I want to
C&P some text into a message that I'm writing.

I've tried the Sempoint reader for awhile, but went back to using MM
(and SLMR occasionally) to read messages in .QWK packets.

73 de Ed W9ODR     .             .



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