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Re: Zap and TTFN

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From: Nigel Barrett
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 00:00
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In message <19950628.125122.16@moffatt.demon.co.uk> Robin Moffatt wrote:

> I have recently noticed that when "composing" a news or email piece in Zap
> TTFN has not always acknowledged that I have finished writing it - I have
> S-Ctrl-F3 set up to close and save the window, which will normally result in
> TTFN opening it's little "Send message
> <123123123.234234@moffatt.demon.co.uk>?" window.
> Sometimes it doesn't do this, and I am left with "TTFN_Work" in the scrap
> directory, and TTFN whinging that "You can only compose one item at a time" if I
> try to write the article again.  
> I am using Zap 1.30 (although it happened with 1.2 as well) on a 5MB RPC
> What I normally have to do is move TTFN_Work to a temporary place, quit TTFN,
> reload it, find the message I was replying to, delete all of the text from the
> zap window and drop the TTFN_Work that I'd moved into zap and then save and
> close it.
> It doesn't happen all of the time - prehaps one in ten messages, but when it
> does it's a real pain :-(
> 
> 

Have you tried the "rescue" feature in TTFN (off the 
icon bar menu) ? On the rare occasions when this happens
to me this usually puts things right.

Nigel

-- 
"Cracking toast, Gromit"                         Nigel Barrett
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From: nigel@c3po.demon.co.uk (Nigel Barrett)
Subject: Re: Zap and TTFN
Date: 1995/06/30
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