IAN HOARE wrote the following to STEPHEN HAFFLY, and I quote (in part):

 SH>> I had the same problem setting up MultiMail for my wife.  Her 
 SH>> computer
 SH>> is running Windows 95osr2.  Part of the problem was the path names.
 SH>> For some reason, MultiMail didn't like pathnames that were longer 
 SH>> than 8 characters.

 IH> Caramba, It's going to be tricky getting down to only 8 chars. Does 
 IH> that _include_ the filename as well? I hope not. I suppose that I 
 IH> could rename the file and put a copy somewhere else. What a nuisance. 
 IH> I really do try quite hard to keep a decent hierarchical structure on 
 IH> my HDs despite Windows' best efforts. Thanks for the tip, I'll see 
 IH> what I can try out. 

   Have you tried creating a shortcut to Pedit in Mulitmail's
default folder and not using a path at all?

    Later, 
      Charles

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