In a message on Monday 07-17-16 Paul Quinn said to Holger Granholm:   
      
   Good evening Paul,   
      
    HG> Things like that happen when you get older. OTOH, I didn't see any   
    HG> advice in your mail, how to do what I wanted to achieve ;o(   
      
   PQ> Yeah, I know.  I've been fretting about that for the last couple of   
   PQ> days.  I'm glad you replied.  I was really bereft of the specifics   
   PQ> of what you struggled with but am glad you took my jibes in good   
   PQ> humour.   
      
   Well, I'm not so easily angered, especially not when I'm struggling with   
   things new to me.   
      
    HG> Hey, just came to think of it, maybe the Windows e-mail program is   
    HG> on the laptop I got for xmas. After all he used it in his job.   
      
   PQ> Ah, not a good idea.  The Outlook program is another MS product with   
   PQ> a big target on its back for hackers and their ilk.   
      
   Maybe I should try Gmail, but I really don't like that idea either.   
   I have a feeling that Google (Gmail), plays in the same league as M$.   
      
   OTOH, my GS created a Gmail address for me, because he uses that, but   
   when I tried to get into it, I didn't succed. The reason was that one   
   character in the password was wrong. I haven't tried since, though I   
   got the correct chr from my GS.   
      
   The chr was a capital one, but I had tred with a lower case letter.   
   Gmail is case sensitive, you know.    
      
   PQ> Ahmm, Thunderbird is just another Windows program.  It has direct   
   PQ> access to & from the Windows "clipboard".  Anything that you can get   
   PQ> -to- the Windows clipboard usually can be pasted into a Thunderbird   
   PQ> email window.   
      
   I know about cut-and-paste, my problem was (is) to get the wanted text   
   displayed. Even that had been unnecessary, because the wanted text was   
   already on that other media. I just wanted it inserted into the e-mail.   
      
   It's easy as a pie, doing it with this QWK program, with the QEdit or   
   Semware Editor. Just Ctrl-KR (read) f:\dir\file.txt, and voil  it's here   
      
   PQ> Either using the 'Edit' menu option in a text-drafting window or by   
   PQ> simply right-clicking the mouse on its window will work.   
      
   Well yes, there is an edit command in the T-bird menu, but I didn't   
   become successful with that either.   
      
   PQ> How about a demonstration?  This node's Sunday afternoon's   
   PQ> maintenance run produced this echo report for my main node in a   
   PQ> _netmail_ (partial extract only)...   
      
   PQ> -----8<-----C-U-T--H-E-R-E----->8-----   
   PQ> 3:640/384.0                    Statistics since: 2-Feb-12   
      
   PQ>                                   Sent netmails: 295/3227 KB   
   PQ>                               Received netmails: 0/186 KB   
   PQ>                                  Sent echomails: 10780/17 MB   
   PQ>                              Received echomails: 463341/827 MB   
   PQ>                                           Dupes: 5362   
   PQ> -----8<-----C-U-T--H-E-R-E----->8-----   
      
   Easy as a pie in this QWK editor, but apparently I have to first show it   
   before I can cut-and-paste it into T-bird.   
      
   I just wish that I could replace the T-bird editor, with for example,   
   The Semware Editor, that is available in two Windows versions, and can   
   be configured to use WordStar, Borland, Word Perfect, etc. commands.   
      
   PQ> Now.  What was it you were trying to do again?  ;)   
      
   As I wrote, I'm newbie trying to learn how to do things in Thunderbird.   
   Consequently, I appreciate all the help I can get.   
      
   Have a nice evening,   
      
   Holger   
      
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