Re: Pegasus -> Waffle: messages get garbled; why?

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From: Richard Herbert
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 00:00

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On 16 Dec 1995 17:40:32 -0500, musique469@aol.com (Musique469) wrote:

>pmfji, but i can't seem to even get *.cmd etc. files sent. it works
>perfectly from dos pmail. but from winpmail (both 1.2 & 2.23) i only get a
>.wom file. i've noticed in the wguide the following:
>>>Gateways which require a program to be run will work,
>but you may have to fiddle with the Windows icon unless
>you can run the program from a PIF file. <<
>anyone have any suggestions for "fiddling" - i am not using a .pif, i am
>calling pegwaf.exe directly (according to the gateway definition).

Create a PEGWAF.PIF file for PegWaf, and set it to allow background
execution. Your UDG can specify PEGWAF.EXE, but Windows finds the PIF
first and uses that instead. I had the same problem until Andrew
Morrow pointed out the error of my approach.

Hope this helps.

Richard

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Richard Herbert
rherbert@interlink.net
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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