[pmmail-list] PMMail on my desktop, files on notebook?

[Andrew Webber]

On Sat, 10 Feb 2001 11:35:33 +0100, Robert Dahlem wrote:

>Andrew,
>
>
>On Tue, 06 Feb 2001 22:07:55 -0500, Andrew Webber wrote:
>
>>>>After using it some more, I'm finding there's a 
>>>>noticeable delay in opening (or previewing) each 
>>>>message.  It's rather annoying, and I wonder if 
>>>>there's anything I can do to make it faster.  
>
>>>That's because PMMAIL does nearly everything in 
>>>.\TEMP\ (on the network).  Get yourself a hex 
>>>editor, open your .EXE and change all occurences 
>>>of ".\TEMP\" to "C:\PTM\" (must use same length). 
>>>You might consider to have a backup available. :-)
>
>>I did this (used UltraEdit) and changed all ".\TEMP" 
>>to "C:\PMM".  PMMail still launches okay but I just 
>>get a blank preview screen, and a blank message 
>>window when I open a message.  Then if I go to another 
>>folder I get "PMMail has crashed, a log has been 
>>created".  (But it doesn't say where [Windows 2000]).
>
>Sorry for misdirecting you. I forgot PMMail was coded 
>>by amateurs and does not check for _any_ return code 
>>it ever gets. Instead it prefers to talk to that 
>>infamous Dr. Watson ... :-(
>
>For your purposes its totally sufficient to patch 
>>".\TEMP\TEMP.RTF" to "C:\PMM\TEMP.RTF". In the 
>>professional version you should find this string 
>>at 0xA44AC.


That did it (used UltraEdit again)!  Works like a charm (for at
least the last 30 seconds ;).

Now I can be frustrated yet again about PMMail's font handling, I
really want to bump up the display by one point size (since the
desktop machine has a much higher resolution) but that will make
the paper output even bigger.  Mumble mumble mumble.

Thanks again!


andrew [awebber@wwwebbers.com]

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