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From: campbell%hpdmd48@hplabs.HP.COM (Gary Campbell)
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Subject: Re: ez-reader program
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Date: 14 Aug 90 20:39:15 GMT
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Fidonet: Blink Talk Conference

Index Number: 9853

Tandy.Way@f6.n377.z1.fidonet.org (Tandy Way) writes:

>Index Number: 9731
>the current ezreader is ez131.zip if you don't find it up there give me
I just got v1.32 off of a board here in Boise last week.

I use it with Artic vision by having it write directly to video memory.
I have a window for the text portion, another for subject, to, and from,
and another for date.  Artic lets you speak a window that is not your
active window by pressing alt-windownumber, so I have window 0 (whole
screen window) as my active window if I want to look at anything not
covered in the other windows, I also have a window that just covers the
subject lines in the i)ndividual message screen.  I set the bar track to
track black foreground.

I am trying to speed up use of it as much as possible, because I am
finding that following even a few conferences (we take Smartnet,
Interlink, Rastanet, and some others-- not Fido though on the board I am
using) is taking far too much time, especially when school (on top of
work) starts.  To that end I would like to see the i screen have an
option to show only the first message in a thread.  Also, on this screen
the down arrow key wraps from the last message to the first on the
screen, at which point you must pres pgdn to get the next page of
messages, which is annoying.

I may write some of this to the author if I get time before school.  I
doubt that I will continue with the conferences much after school
starts, and you pretty much have to keep up all the time with them or
not at all.

Do boards that handle Fidonet conferences have doors or whatever that
work with Ez-reader?  (I read this group via UseNet).

--
Gary Campbell
campbell%hpdmd48.BOI.HP.COM@hplabs.HP.COM