-=> Quoting ART TAIT to BEN CARPENTER <=-

 BC> When you print from BW it has nothing to do with the editor.  Yes I
 BC> understand that BW launches (points to) Qedit when you create a reply
 BC> or new message.  But when you are in BW and want to print a message
 BC> Qedit is not called.  BW just sends the message to the printer you
 BC> have assigned in the BW setup which also depends on the printer setup
 BC> in your operating system.
 AT> 
 AT> Ben, Not that I didnt believe you but i did prove that to
 AT> myself (G) I removed any reference to Qedit and sure enough the
 AT> message was printed just fine!

 Art, Several things that you do in BW launch an external application to
 do that one job.  Composing or replying to a messages pulls up an
 external editor (of your choice), Spell checking in BW pulls up an
 external spellchecker (of your choice), packing and unpacking your mail
 message pulls up an external compression/decompression application.  I
 could go on but I think you get the picture BW depends on several
 applications to help it do it's job.  Instead of reinventing the wheel
 George set it up to use applications that others had invented and
 allowed you to choose the ones that you like.  For printing he allowed
 you to point at the port you have your printer connected to and use the
 OS settings to run your printer.

 AT> BW points to LPT 1    Setting says that the default printer
 AT> for LPT 1 is the Epson.

 I may not have been a clear as I should have been on this.  BW printer
 settings send the print command to a printer port on your computer and
 the printer port settings are then used to direct your printer.

 When you send something to the printer from an application it may make
 some temp changes in the OS printer settings or the settings in the
 printer it's self.  Some applications behave better than others and
 return the settings to normal when finished, but some do not.  If this
 happens then when you power down and power up these settings are
 returned to normal. If you print something that makes one of these temp
 changes then the next print job will use these settings if it does not
 make any changes it's self.

 AT> Since the problem is not mission critical I will move on to
 AT> something else to occupy my time (G)

 I read you loud and clear as I have been in the same boat many times.

 AT> Weatherman is calling for rain turning to snow later in the
 AT> day. Appears to be headed your way!

 Yes we got some of the rain early evening.  Our son was home (he lives
 in the oldwest end of Toledo) for the day.  He and I were working on a
 bunch of picture frames for some of his art work.  We hauled him and the
 frames home and when we got to his place we had to get some covers to
 keep them dry as we carried them in the house.  Rained quite hard for a
 little while but on the way home we ran out of the rain but road was
 wet and it had rained at our house also.

... Ben     

... A question: What follows 2 days of rain? Monday.
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