Subj : Re: I have no idea
To   : Ed Vance
From : Holger Granholm
Date : Sat Oct 21 2017 11:46 am

In a message on Saturday 10-20-17 Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:

GM Ed,

HG> According to the text, my son changed to summer wheels on my car
HG> "today"

HG> In fact this happened on April 12th 2017.

EV> Your message Dated 09-28-17 came in a .QWK packet I grabbed from the
EV> BBS on 10-17-17 at 3:04 PM EDT.

EV> That is a long time for a message to wander through Fido's Network
EV> before getting to where I could see it.

I was wondering if that message had reached you already in april, and
this message was a copy that had been stored somewhere, came through
again. Maybe not.

EV> I saw Your message just after I grabbed the .QWK packet but got
EV> confused about the Date it was sent and about the Date that You saw
EV> and wrote about.

EV> Here is what I found:

EV> I (finally) found it by using MultiMail's Search Option and doing a
EV> Full Text search for the Phrase - summer wheels.

Even if my MR/2 QWK-reader has a search function, I wouldn't have found
that message since I don't store messages that long.

EV> I know that MultiMail includes a Color File that You Created, so You
EV> probably have used MM's Search Option to Hunt for something,
EV> somewhere, that You remember seeing in a message but can't remember
EV> which Packet it came in.

I don't use MM even though I do have the OS/2 version of it.

EV> In case You haven't used the Search Option, let me bore You a bit

EV> MM's Search will look through all of the .QWK files shown in MM
EV> DOS's Opening Screen.
EV> (MM's WIN version should probably have this Search Option too.)

All versions of MM do have the same functionality.

EV> MultiMail looks through all of the .QWK files that are in the List.

I don't save the old QWK-files. They get overwritten with the next one.

EV> It (MM) Stops looking and shows the first results of the Search when
EV> it finds the Text I entered.

EV> It was just recently that I tried out MM's Search feature, and it
EV> blew my mind when I saw how Quickly it looked through all of the
EV> .QWK Packet files in the List.

Thanks for the info.


CU AGN, Sam, OH0NC

aka Holger


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