[pmmail-list] Substitute Text Editor

[Kenn Yuill]

Carl,

I opened your message to remove the redundancy in my response, which
was the "the" in "its the \PMMAIL\TEMP directory".  As you can see
below, there was no change, using the FlexEdit editor from FileStar/2. 
Outside of PMMail/2, this editor works very well.  I should mention
that this editor is set in PMMail/2 to read text/plain files with the
working directory as \PMMAIL\TEMP, if this makes any difference, which
it shouldn't, IMHO.  At the moment, there are 2 files in \PMMAIL\TEMP,
namely, EXT6.BOD at 0 bytes, created by PMMail for this message and
TEMP.bak from FlexEdit, created after my previous attempt to edit your
message.

I'm at FP 10 and there are no attributes connected to this TEMP
directory, which was a problem with one of the Fixpaks in disallowing
the system to write to a directory, IIRC.  FlexEdit has no problems
writing to any directory, with TEMP.bak being proof of this fact.

I'm at a loss.  If I shut down PMMail/2 and restart it, after running
another program, I can edit only one message.  Weird!

On Fri, 12 Oct 2001 02:27:38 -0400 (EDT), Carl Gehr wrote:

Kenn,

Try this:
	* Open the message window with the text you
	  want to change.
	* Switch to the Text Editor.
	* Make all the changes you want.
	* SAVE the file.
	* Exit the Editor.
You will then return to the PMMail editor with the changed text
replacing the text that was there when you switched to the Text
Editor.

This is the process I use on a regular basis with EPM as the external
editor.

Good luck.

Carl

On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 22:11:40 -0400 (EDT), Kenn Yuill wrote:

>  I'm trying out the 2380 demo. and any editor that I have tried
(Kon,
>EPM or FlexEdit) to edit a message externally works without incident
>but changes to the message are not saved after the first successful
>edition.  I'll have to try deleting any previous files, TEMP.BOD &
>TEMP.HDR in the TEMP folder, before trying to edit a second time
during
>one session of PMM.
>If this behaviour is a limitation of the demo. version, I missed any
>reference to it.
>
>  The only possible contributing factor is that the system is set to
>use Z:\TEMP, a RAM Disk, as a temporary directory, whereas PMMail
uses
>its the \PMMAIL\TEMP directory.
>
>Any help is appreciated.

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