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Re: AGH! NewsGrazer and Mail gang up & destroy work!

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From: David Aspinall
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 21:13
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In article <pzxxcbd@rpi.edu> gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)  
writes:
> 
> 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.
> 
> --
> Garance Alistair Drosehn     =     gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
> ITS Systems Programmer            (handles NeXT-type mail)
> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;           Troy NY    USA

Actually, I'm using Release 3.0 Beta 2 and NewsGrazer 72.0 an everything  
works great.   Hmmm, what changes are there between release 72.0 and 72.2 ?

Could someone mail me the 72.2 version?
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David Aspinall			NeXT Campus Consultant
Email- next@yorku.ca		York University, Canada
 
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Subject: Re: AGH!  NewsGrazer and Mail gang up & destroy work!
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