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Article #2991Re: News Readers for NS 3.0 and other bitches
From: Dave Griffiths
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 22:00
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 22:00
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In article <4+yzy+_@rpi.edu> gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) writes: >jchin@prodigy.bc.ca (Joe Chin) writes: >> Okay ... I upgraded the production systems to 3.0, ... >> >> But then I found out neither Newsbase 2.1.1 nor NewsGrazer will work! > >I don't know about Newsbase. I had no trouble with NewsGrazer under 3.0. > >I did have one disappointment with NewsGrazer, though. It was my >understanding from beta-tester reports that 3.0 would fix the dreaded >"sending mail while a Send Window is already open in Mail" bug. Under >release 2.x, hitting "Reply" in NewsGrazer would open up a new send window >in mail, but then wipe out the message that was sitting in a previous send >window (if there was one already open). > >I thought this was supposed to be fixed in Release 3.0, but the behavior >seems about the same to me. > I believe the unofficial Mail API has been enhanced so that you can avoid the problem by making use of the new API, but for reasons of backward compatibility existing programs that use the old API will still cause problems. Maybe someone at NeXT could spend ten minutes to upgrade NewsGrazer to use the new API? Dave Griffiths
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!prim!dave From: prim!dave@germany.eu.net (Dave Griffiths) Subject: Re: News Readers for NS 3.0 and other bitches Message-ID: <1992Oct13.220024.10752@prim> Organization: Primitive Software Ltd. References: <1992Oct11.111358.19692@prodigy.bc.ca> <4+yzy+_@rpi.edu> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 22:00:24 GMT Lines: 26