TeleFinder Chat Log

Text of TeleFinder Chat from Friday, April 3, 1998 11 AM PST.

In attendance:

From Spider Island: Rusty Tucker,

Sysops: mikael fredriksson, Bill Gram-Reefer, Bob Nunn, Michael Davidson, Jonathan Paisley, Ken Sutherland, Daniel O'Leary, Bob Wright

rusty tucker hola!
Bob Nunn Hey!
Jonathan Paisley hey
mikael fredriksson Hi!
rusty tucker Welcome to the Chat Room chat Michael!
Michael Davidson hola!
mikael fredriksson RT I have a small problem with TF User5.7b8 on a mac with Allegro 8.2a2c3 small icons in TFs windows is only BW
Michael Davidson I found out why my user enters didn't work last time, it wasn't my code, it was a set of radio buttons that got messed up
Jonathan Paisley I see that last time folks were talking about file attachments with the mail plugin
mikael fredriksson yes there are problems with the mail plugin and file attachments when you try to download them my server bombs and get in to macsbug
Jonathan Paisley tell me about your system config and the particular attachments you're looking at
rusty tucker Welcome to the Chat Room chat Ken!
mikael fredriksson I have mailed a copy of a file attachment to Ken Sutherland they where from Quickmail pro 1.5 (base64 files)
Ken Sutherland hi all
rusty tucker Welcome to the Chat Room chat Daniel!
rusty tucker I'll be right back!
Daniel O'Leary I made it again.
Michael Davidson brb
Jonathan Paisley mf: ken gave me an appledouble-base64 encoded file. Is that the one?
Michael Davidson testing: the
rusty tucker Welcome to the Chat Room chat Bob!
Jonathan Paisley mf: what server/pi versions are you using (+ web browser)
mikael fredriksson yes
mikael fredriksson the latest PI and Netscape 4.03
Jonathan Paisley server version?
Daniel O'Leary By the way, I snagged the mozilla source off the net this morning.
mikael fredriksson latest beta of tf server
Jonathan Paisley b12?
mikael fredriksson b14
Jonathan Paisley ooh, I'm behind!
Daniel O'Leary I grabbed the Unix and mac versions for the source. will get WinHoze last.
mikael fredriksson bombs on any appledouble-base64 encoded file I sent from Quickmail Pro (its the only non TF client I tested to mail from)
Daniel O'Leary Rusty, is there an update planned to allow TF msg areas with file attachments to be viewed as such from the web?
Bob Wright How does the reply feature work? No matter what I do, I always get the FULL text in reply
Michael Davidson brb
Daniel O'Leary Has anyone tried my new user script yet?
Michael Davidson Bob Wright, it's supposed to reply with only selected text, or all if none selected (I think), but it seems to reply with all text currently.
Bob Nunn Will that put all of the folders in the users area? I noted three. I plan to use it this weekend and realize that I will have to change the path.
Ken Sutherland RT, any chance you could remove the auto download test for send mail please for the next beta please
Jonathan Paisley bob: check out the options in the preferences panel
Jonathan Paisley (bob w)
Bob Wright jp: thanky! I should have looked there first ;)
Bob Nunn Did anyone notice you can open a text file larger than 32k now or am I the only one who didn't read all the notes.
Jonathan Paisley rusty: does that mean we're actually using WASTE now?
Ken Sutherland top of the class jp
Daniel O'Leary Does OAT now support the styled text and arbitrary window size fully in IM's generated by requests to the robot?
Jonathan Paisley I don't know about styled text.... Is this something new in IMs?
Daniel O'Leary Remember the OLD ones JP?
rusty tucker back again
Bob Wright Bob N: I didn't know that
Bob Nunn No more 32k text file limits Rusty?
Daniel O'Leary Was thinking that the chat windows and IM's now use styled text, though not in the message body.
Daniel O'Leary but from prefs.
rusty tucker MF - I'm not going to spend time with Allegro until they get to beta..
Jonathan Paisley OAT only gets plain text from the TF server
rusty tucker Yes, there is still a 32K limit, but TeleFinder user is ignoring it for some reason :(
rusty tucker
Daniel O'Leary I like it rusty.
Bob Nunn Well it makes me happy that it does. Can be bad though if you have a lot of large text files.
Daniel O'Leary but only if I can count on it to stay behaved.
rusty tucker The window fills with ca-ca once it goes past 32k
Michael Davidson Hey DO, speaking of 32K, that's the largest size most AS text commands can handle
Jonathan Paisley get the ACME Replace script extension, and it should do the required stuff for your $USERNAME replacing...
rusty tucker KS - what is the "auto download test for send mail" ?
Daniel O'Leary JP I will try that.
Michael Davidson I'll be right back.
Daniel O'Leary I was hoping for a single-piece solution, but if I cannot have one then I will do it with extensions.
Jonathan Paisley I've gotta go now. see you folks later!
rusty tucker Ken?
rusty tucker see ya JP
rusty tucker c-ya
Daniel O'Leary I sent Ted Brindle some info on aftermarket Mac security products.
rusty tucker Ken, are you still here?
rusty tucker c-ya
rusty tucker OK, what do you say we wrap it up for this week?
rusty tucker I'll take that as a yes...:)
rusty tucker c-ya
rusty tucker c-ya
rusty tucker see you all next Tuesday