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Re: Scanners and OS/2

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From: Andrew Gierth
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 00:00
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>>>>> "Danny" == Danny  <Danny@midlife.demon.co.uk@demon.co.uk> writes:

 Danny> Don't think so, I'm posting this from NR/2, which according to
 Danny> the advanced tab, shows my email address correctly, but
 Danny> whenever I look in configure/posting shows my address
 Danny> incorrectly, even after correction.  Maybe it's in an editable
 Danny> .ini file?

Digging through my old nr2post.log (I haven't used NR/2 for ages) I
found this answer I gave to someone else on the subject (irrelevent
stuff trimmed):

****** Log appended on Sat Jul 06 19:27:07 1996
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.networking.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Help: NR/2 won't post articles ("RC=441. Posting failed")

>It seem tha now have a clearer understanding where the problem lies. NR/2 does 
>not accept my entry in the "Configure Posting..." dialogue From...-field.
>If I enter here my e-mail account (which is on a Unix machine in the computing center
>and not on my PC), this accepted for the time being, but not saved.
>Therefore, when I restart NR/2, there is again nonsense in this field (in this case the
>hostname under which my PC is registered in the LAN), followed by an "at"-symbol.
>This then obviously leads to the rejection of any posting attempts.

NR/2 for some bizarre (and probably brain-damaged) reason, does not 
actually save the From: field anywhere, but initialises it from the
user & domain information from the TCP/IP Configuration notebook.

Hope this helps.

-- 
Andrew.
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