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|    Message 446 of 1,004    |
|    Martin Foster to Al Thompson    |
|    New Winpoint user    |
|    14 Feb 22 08:36:55    |
      MSGID: 2:280/464.27 33a48705       CHRS: IBMPC 2       TZUTC: 0000       REPLY: 1:229/426.27 33456e83       Hello Al!              *** Sunday 13.02.22 at 23:57:40, Al Thompson wrote to All:               AT> Hello All. New Winpoint user here, after many years away from Fidonet.              Welcome back and welcome to the world of WinPoint :-)               AT> Installation was painless,              Excellent :)               AT> especially compared to the days of struggling to get        AT> X00/Binkley/QuickBBS, and all of the required axilliary programs running.              Ah yes, happy days! ;)               AT> One nagging issue I am having, it that during message entry, every        AT> character I type appears to be followed by a space, no matter what font        AT> or font size I try.              I've *never* seen that happen here.               AT> Also, after I first got it configured and running, I exited by hitting        AT> the "X" in the upper right corner.              I *always* do that.               AT> I suspect that this didn't properly close all of the files, because I got        AT> an error when I tried to run it again.              No errors here, how strange ??              Do you remember what the error message was?                AT> Reinstalling, and telling it to overwrite the configuration files got it        AT> fixed. Since then, I have used FILE|EXIT to quit, and haven't had any        AT> trouble.              Well, at least you've fixed it :)               AT> Is this a known issue?              Nope.              Regards,       Martin       --- WinPoint 398.2        * Origin: WinPoint Test Rig - UK - (2:280/464.27)       SEEN-BY: 15/0 30/0 106/201 124/5016 129/331 153/757 7715 203/0 221/0       SEEN-BY: 221/1 6 229/110 317 426 428 664 700 240/1120 266/512 280/464       SEEN-BY: 280/5003 282/464 1038 292/854 8125 301/0 1 101 113 310/31       SEEN-BY: 317/3 320/219 335/364 341/66 234 396/45 460/58 712/848 920/1       SEEN-BY: 2452/250 5020/1042 5058/104       PATH: 280/464 301/1 229/426           |
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