home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Super Shareware Collection
/
Super Shareware Collection.iso
/
os_2
/
timg1p.zip
/
TIMED.Q&A
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1994-02-06
|
3KB
|
107 lines
Question & Answers about timEd
------------------------------
Q.
I wrote a nicely formatted message with my external editor.
However, after timEd read the message in, the message looked quite
different and the nice format was gone.
A.
In order to stay within the Fidonet specifications, timEd has to
'intelligently' strip 'hard returns' from your messages, before
writing them to the message base. Usually, this works quite well
and you won't notice it.
Sometimes it goes wrong, and for these cases you can instruct
timEd to temporarily NOT strip these 'hard returns'. Look in
timEd.prn ('Entering messages with timEd') for more details.
-=-
Q.
I instructed timEd to read my echomail processor's configuration
file, to get the area definitions. But my netmail and local areas
do not show up.
A.
TimEd only gets the ECHOMAIL areas from your tosser configuration.
Netmail and local areas need to be defined manually in timEd.cfg.
The reason for this is, that you might not want to see those areas
in timEd at all (for the Bad_Msgs area for example), or because
you usually want to define something special for that area (for
the netmail area, you usually want to set standard attributes like
'private').
There's another, added, advantage as well: ALL information timEd
is using comes from one centralized place: timEd.cfg, with only
one exception (ECHOMAIL areas).
If anything goes wrong, you'll know where to look. You won't have
to worry about several config files that timEd might be getting
its info from as well..
-=-
Q.
In timEd.cfg I can define 'hellostrings' and an Origin. But for
different areas, I want to use different origins. Is that
possible?
A.
Yes, that's possible! When you press ALT-H while you are in a
message area, you can define custom 'hellostrings' etc. for use in
that area only! Using this, you can have different 'hellostrings'
and origins for every area! See timEd.prn for more info.
Please note that permanently SAVING these strings is only available in
registered versions.
-=-
Q.
In timEd.cfg, I changed the 'Hellostring'. However, in ONE area,
the old 'hellostring' is still being used! How come?
A.
You probably used ALT-H to edit the 'Hellostring' for that area.
After using ALT-H, you can save {+} this information (in that area).
That custom hellostring will then be used for messages in that
area.
If you change the hellostring in timEd.cfg, that will not affect
the custom 'hellostring' for that area.
See timEd.prn for more info about the ALT-H function.
-=-
Q.
Will you implement support for 'Taglines' and 'Cookies' in timEd?
A.
No, I don't like to support automatically generated echomail
pollution.
-=-