-=> On 12-04-04  00:29,  Bruce Clark <=-
 -=> spoke to Dale Shipp about Sig... <=-

 BC> My problem is trying to remember to do that when I actually start the 
 BC> program from DOS. 

  I have different shortcuts in my execution folder for each version.
  Each shortcut contains the relevant config file as a parameter.  I do
  the same sort of thing with my email client, Eudora.

 BC> Different: 
 BC> Work Directory
 BC> Reply Directory

 BC> and make sure not to open the same message packet with both BW at
 BC> once.  

   That is probably wise, but with different work directories you might
   get away with it.  The last one to close would be the one that
   updated the QWK packet (or the BW packet).

 BC> Is there a place to change the name of the temporary message file name
 BC> (MSGTEMP.TXT), so more then one message/reply can be written at a
 BC> time?  

   That is something I never though about.   It is (says he looking at
   the path line in his Qedit as he types) a fixed default in the home
   directory.  I just did an experiment with my archive version, opening
   it in another directory, and it still tried to compose a reply
   message in this same \bwave\msgtemp.txt  -- not a good idea!

 BC> That was another reason I did multiple EXEs: MSGTMP1.TXT, MSGTMP2.TXT

   And it may be a reason to keep what you did.   I've wanted second
   copies of Bwave primarily to go look at an older packet while keeping
   the current one open.  Never thought of replying from the second
   copy.

 BC> Since I used the same B&W color scheme on all of them, I didn't need 
 BC> to change the _BWCOLOR.CFG in the EXE. 

   I have a color scheme I like, and did not change it either.

                        dale (at) min (dot) net
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