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ZL1ABS > WINPAC 24.06.09 03:02l 46 Lines 1453 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : 7B2918ZL1ABS
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Subj: Bulletin Columns
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Sent: 090624/0052Z @:ZL1AB.#06.NZL.OC #:30381 [AUCKLAND] FBB7.00i $:7B2918ZL1AB
From: ZL1ABS@ZL1AB.#06.NZL.OC
To : WINPAC@WW
So says Roger G4IDE SK..........
"Message List Columns
Any program like WinPack that processes the 'raw' message list from a BBS
has to know
where the various columns of information are. I.e. where the "To" column
is in the list,
where the "From" column is, etc. Once you have got WinPack working and
have collected
your first message list from your local BBS, you should run the "Bulletin
Columns" option
on the "Options" menu. Use each item on this submenu in turn, and follow
the prompts on
the status line.
NB - if you are using the FBB unproto message beacons, the list columns
are
automatically set and the "Bulletin Columns" submenu is unavailable. The
next bit is in
large, red writing because, of all the avoidable "problems" that users
have reported with
WinPack, not setting the bulletin columns is by far the most common!
IF YOU AREN'T USING THE UNPROTO BEACONS AND YOU CHOOSE
NOT TO BOTHER SETTING UP THE COLUMNS, THEN IT IS UNLIKELY
THAT ANY OF THE AUTOMATIC MAIL FUNCTIONS WILL WORK
PROPERLY. SELECTING BULLETINS USING "TO", "FROM", ETC, WILL
NOT WORK AND THEMES WILL NOT WORK."
de ZL1ABS
I must have been lucky that the default setting in Winpack seemed to work
fairly trouble free. Bob VK6BE seems less lucky.
Now I should follow Roger's advice & see what following the "Column set
up" does for me.
73 - Michael, ZL1ABS @ ZL1AB
Message timed: 12:27 on 2009-Jun-24
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