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   Martin Foster to August Abolins   
   winpoint: waiting for optimization to co   
   24 Apr 20 12:10:00   
   
   MSGID: 2:310/31.3@fidonet e3b85340   
   REPLY: 2:221/1.58@fidonet e3b20f7e   
   PID: OpenXP/5.0.43 (Win32) (i386)   
   CHRS: ASCII 1   
   TZUTC: 0100   
   Hello August!   
      
   *** Thursday 23.04.20 at 23:58, August Abolins wrote to All:   
      
    AA> I just ran into a new situation with Winpoint.   
      
   Uh-oh   
      
    AA> I fired it up and kinckstarted the handy nodelist viewer via    
      
    AA> When I started to enter the particulars for my search, the program kicked   
    AA> into "Waiting for Optimization to complete.." and bogged down my whole XP   
    AA> pc environment.  Even Ctrl-Alt-Del to bring up the Task Manager was not   
    AA> responding as soon as I hoped it would.  But after a few more attempts of   
    AA> C-A-D, I was able to kill the WinPointII.exe process.   
      
   Yikes!! :-((   
      
    AA> But.. what did I just witness with the "Waiting..." ?   
      
   I don't know because I've always had WinPoint's messagebase optimization     
   feature disabled, sorry.   
      
   Regards,   
   Martin   
      
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