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Re: Personal wishlist....

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From: John Washington
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 00:00
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On Monday, in article <830796776snz@pcserv.demon.co.uk>
     paul@pcserv.demon.co.uk "Paul Carpenter" wrote:

PC> Not knowing if these have already been documented and added to wishlist(s),
PC> a few niggles from the DIS package...

What?  It's generating its own niggles now??  ;-)

PC> SNEWS   One I have not yet got to the bottom of but is really irritating,
PC>         is *SOMETIMES* when sending an email reply to a post, you edit the
PC>         message then go to send (F7) and get a Share Violation. No direct

Huh?  F7 doesn't have any action in Snews, does it?

PC> Finger/Viewer
PC>         Expand TAB characters so when doing finger status@gate.d.c.u it is
PC>         all readable!
PC> 
PC>         I know that they should not be there, but sometimes some people put
PC>         entries in quickly so forget about not using tab character.

This should IMHO be fixed at the host end.  Sounds like
a little cron job.  Or else just make using an editor
that inserts tabs a sacking offence!  (I had to get out
of software management, the Personnel Dept couldn't cope
with the work I generated!)

--
John Washington
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Date: 1996/04/29
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