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robert@metropolis.com (Robert Munyer) writes:
> Run Mail.  Read an incoming message.  Spend 45 minutes composing a reply.
> Don't send it just yet.  Run NewsGrazer.  Read an article.  Hit the
> "Reply" button.  Your PRE-EXISTING Send window comes to the front, and
> the reply you spent all that time writing gets DELETED and replaced by
> the article text.
> 
> NewsGrazer Release 2.0, Version 72.2
> Mail       Release 2.0 (v63)
> System     Release 2.1

NewsGrazer did the best it could for implementing "Reply" on a release 2.1  
system.  Unfortunately the best it can do is to use an undocumented (and not  
completely tested) side-door into mail.  This side-door lets newsgrazer pop  
up mail messages, but has the undesirable side-effect that you've described.

I've been nailed by this as well.  To avoid it, either post that Mail  
message before running newsgrazer, or miniaturize the Send window (so it's  
an icon instead of a window).

As I understand it, release 3.0 has a new interface for Mail, and using this  
interface the above problem will not come up.  I imagine that NewsGrazer  
needs to be changed to take advantage of this new interface, but once that's  
done then this problem will be a distant (and unpleasent) memory.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn     =     gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer            (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;           Troy NY    USA