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   Message 940 of 3,070   
   August Abolins to Martin Foster   
   point softare PROS and CONS   
   02 May 19 17:48:10   
   
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   REPLY: 2:240/2188.31@fidonet d809e6c7   
   PID: JamNNTPd/OS2 1.3 20190208   
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   On 02/05/2019 2:37 a.m., Martin Foster : August Abolins wrote:   
      
   > Comments   
   > ========   
   >   
   > [Apoint] CONS   
   > -------------   
   > "- JAM support broken. Only Apoint message base (AMF) supported."   
   >   
   > way back in 2003, I said this: "APoint will handle a JAM message base   
   > that APoint itself has created ......". As development stopped   
   > sometime in 2001, I'm assuming that my statement from 2003 is still   
   > correct. However, we've recently discovered a cosmetic issue when   
   > converting an existing AMF format message area to JAM format. Based on   
   > all that, it may be better to say something along the lines of   
   > "Cosmetic issue after converting an AMF format area to JAM format".   
   > I'll leave it up to you to decide what to do :-)   
      
   So.. "Apoint JAM base = Proprietary + Fails to display Quantity of messages in   
   Area list.   
      
                                     ?   
      
   To me, "cosmetic" would imply an affect on something that works but renders   
   differently.   
      
   In this case, message count is completely missing.  :(   
      
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