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- Quarterdeck Message Center 2.0 - README.TXT file
-
-
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- =================
-
- Section 1 - Additions to the Manual
- Section 2 - Notes on Features
- Section 3 - Misc. Issues
-
-
- Section 1 - Additions to the manual
- ===================================
-
- The following items were added after the manual went to print.
-
- - When displaying the list of all available newsgroups, you can
- search for a specific text string in the title of the newsgroup.
- Select Set Filter and type in the text string you would like to
- search for. Press the Set button. Any newsgroups which contains
- that string anywhere in the newsgroup name will be displayed. To clear,
- press the Reset Filter button.
-
- - Apply ROT13 has been added to the Edit menu. ROT13 scrambles messages.
- See help for more details.
-
-
- Section 2 - Notes on Features
- =============================
-
- - Newsgroups Dialog/Newsgroup List box
-
- Whenever you display the Newsgroups dialog or when you use the Retrieve
- button to obtain the list of newsgroups, QMC fills the Newsgroups list
- box with all the News Server's newsgroups. Since this list can be very
- large, QMC provides several navigational aids for selecting a newsgroup:
-
- 1. Use the mouse or keyboard to scroll through the list as you
- would any Windows list box.
-
- 2. Select Set Filter and type in the text string you would like to
- search for. Press the Set button. Any newsgroups which contain
- that string anywhere in the newsgroup name will be displayed. To clear,
- press the Reset Filter button.
-
- 3. By default, the Newsgroups list contains all newsgroups from the
- News Server. Use the Newsgroups dropdown list to select a subset
- of newsgroups to display. You can use the mouse to control the
- dropdown, or place the cursor in the Newsgroups edit field and use
- the up/down arrows to scroll through the groups of newsgroups.
-
- 4. Begin to type the name of a newsgroup. If the newsgroup is
- currently in the Newsgroups list, QMC moves the list box selection
- to the corresponding entry. If the newsgroup is not currently in
- the displayed list, QMC attempts to match the typed name to an
- entry in its database.
-
- NOTE: On Windows 3.1 systems, if the number of newsgroups on your
- News Server exceeds about 8100, QMC issues a warning that it can't fit the
- entire list in its list box. You have the following options:
-
- 1. If you know the name of the newsgroup you wish to subscribe to,
- type it into the Newsgroups edit control. Even if the newsgroup
- didn't make it into the listbox, QMC attempts to match the name to
- entries in its database.
-
- 2. Use the Newsgroups dropdown list to select a subset of
- newsgroups to display in the listbox. Then browse through the
- displayed list or type a newsgroup name.
-
- This limitation does not pertain to Windows 95.
-
-
- - News Server Timeouts
-
- Some news servers can get extremely busy. When checking for new news
- articles, busy servers that support the XOVER command may cause QMC to
- report timeout errors more often than when news is checked with the
- XHDR method.
-
- If you experience timeouts when checking for news articles, use
- Tools/Preferences/Advanced and uncheck the "Use XOVER" option.
-
-
- - Cancelling a CONNECT Command with Qwinsock
-
- Under certain conditions and configurations, when immediately canceling
- a CONNECT command, QMC and Qwinsock may return to an offline state, yet
- the modem remains off hook, and a dial tone still sounds. To remedy
- this condition, select Connect then Disconnect from the Qwinsock system
- menu. This will reset the modem and put the phone on hook.
-
-
- - Backing up and Compacting Databases
-
- You should back up your databases on a regular basis as a disaster
- protection measure. Use the Tools/Database command and select the Backup
- option.
-
- Whenever you Compact or Backup the databases, you will need an amount of
- free disk space equal to the size of the largest DAT file. Example, if
- the MSGSTORE.DAT is 2Mb in size, and is the largest of the 3 database
- files, there should be at least 2Mb free disk space before doing the
- Compact.
-
- - Connecting And Staying Online
-
- When going online by selecting the Connect/Connect pulldown menu option,
- QMC will continue to remain online until the Connect/Disconnect pulldown
- menu is selected, or until Qwinsock's linger timeout is reached. To
- achieve a true demand dial connection using Qwinsock, that is, to dialup
- when checking mail/news and hang up when the retrieval is complete, do
- not use the Connect/Connect pulldown menu option. Instead, start
- checking mail/news while QMC is already offline, this will cause QMC to
- automatically use its online/offline capabilities.
-
-
- - Newsgroups And Multiple ISPs
-
- If there are newsgroups previously configured for a different ISP, and
- you would like to check the newly configured ISP for articles in that
- particular newsgroup, the News Server setting in the Newsgroup
- Properties dialog will need to be modified to reflect the new server
- name. Because of this, it is recommended that all newsgroups for a
- particular ISP be grouped in a single folder for that particular news
- server. This makes it much easier to check for new news articles when
- multiple ISP accounts are being used.
-
-
- - Offline/Online Mode and Qwinsock
-
- If "Auto Disconnect on WSACleanup" is not enabled in Qwinsock
- (Settings), the phone connection to the server will remain intact when
- QMC is toggled to offline mode. When this Qwinsock feature is enabled,
- QMC will operate in a "true" demand dial manner.
-
-
- - Program Startup Password
-
- When configuring QMC to use the program startup password feature
- (Preferences/Advanced), the selected password is encrypted in the QMC
- database files (*.DAT). It is very important that you do not forget
- your password. If you forget your password, there is no way to access
- the QMC database files. Please do not lose or forget your password. If
- you do, contact Quarterdeck Technical Support to help you recover your
- database files.
-
-
- - Stacker v4.0 Volumes and Low Available Disk Space
-
- It is very important to have plenty of available disk space on the
- Stacker volume where the QMC database files reside. If while
- downloading messages to a Stacker drive, you run out of disk space, QMC
- should be able to recover with no problem. However, Windows itself may
- not be able to properly write information to the disk when shutting down
- back to DOS. This may result in corruption or loss of data.
-
-
- - Viewing File Attachments
-
- Using file associations defined in the [Extensions] section of the
- WIN.INI file, QMC will allow you to open files that have been attached
- to your inbound mail by clicking on the 'Open' button on the Attachments
- dialog window.
-
- Section 3 - Misc. Issues
- ========================
-
- - When Qwinsock's linger timeout is reached and disconnects, QMC is still
- left in 'online' mode. [See prior section on Connecting and Staying
- Online for more information.]
-
- - If for some reason the mail server is not available (for instance, the
- server is currently booting up) when QMC checks/sends mail, QMC does not
- "see" any messages when the server becomes available.
-
- - With the toolbar configured as a floating window, closing it and
- changing the style (View/Toolbar Style) to a different setting, and
- reopening it causes the buttons, text and graphic images on the toolbar
- not to be displayed properly.
-
- - When selecting multiple message headers (SHIFT-DOWN ARROW), as the
- headers get selected, an outline border is displayed on various headers.
-
- - The 'Destination Field' in the Copy/Move dialog box is case sensitive.
-
- - Toggling Show Newsgroups (F2) to actually show the newsgroups, the
- folder tree does not expand to show the newsgroups. Only those folders
- that are already expanded will show newsgroups. F2 does not in and of
- itself expand folders.
-
- - After retrieving news articles, resetting the Message Number to zero in
- the Newsgroup Properties dialog box, then retrieving articles again
- causes duplicate message headers to be displayed in the header list.
-