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

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From: Ron Pomeroy x(Coop)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 15:35
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In article <1992Jul27.211320.29057@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca> dave@lizard.ccs (David  
Aspinall) writes:
>>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?
>>--------------------------------------------------------------------
>>David Aspinall			NeXT Campus Consultant
>>Email- next@yorku.ca		York University, Canada
>> 

Me too,  we're about to go 3.0PR2.
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Advanced Micro Devices        |        understand.
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Subject: Re: AGH!  NewsGrazer and Mail gang up & destroy work!
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