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   Martin Foster to August Abolins   
   winpoint: 1:1/1   
   04 May 20 13:05:00   
   
   MSGID: 2:310/31.3@fidonet e41861c9   
   REPLY: 2:221/1.59 6aca6787   
   PID: OpenXP/5.0.43 (Win32) (i386)   
   CHRS: ASCII 1   
   TZUTC: 0100   
   Hello August!   
      
   *** Saturday 02.05.20 at 00:24, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:   
      
    MF>> Did you mean the DistribNL directory :)   
      
    AA> Yes..  I was thinking "the directory where the nodelists are dropped   
    AA> into".   
      
    AA>>> When I cleared out the old ones, including the diffs, and freshened it   
    AA>>> up with a recent nodelist, the NL viewer (F9) showed the correct   
    AA>>> entries.   
      
    MF>> 'scuse me but there shouldn't be any "rogue" nodelist/nodediff files in   
    MF>> there anyway.   
      
    AA> When I drop in the archived nodelists into the DistribNL, WinPoint   
    AA> magically unpacks them.   
      
   I've never seen that happen here ?   
      
   [snip]   
    AA> WinPoint may be the better GUI-based point program compared to Apoint,   
      
   Yes, it's a much more aesthetically pleasing GUI but it's such a great     
   shame that all the bugs and issues will never be fixed. Perhaps someone     
   should waft $$$$$$'s under Tim's nose ;)   
      
    AA> but I'd rather prefer to take the smoother ride that OpenXP offers.   
      
   Yeah me too and we have a very responsive developer.   
      
   Regards,   
   Martin   
      
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