11-25-17 11:48 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Problem solved
Howdy! Holger,
HG> @MSGID: <5A29D639.1733.amtradio@capitolcityonline.net>
HG> In a message on Thursday 11-21-17 Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:
HG> GE Ed,
EV> I ain't meaning to nit pick but 11-16-17 was a Thursday, wasn't it?
HG> YES it was, you're correct and the same error is on the top line of
HG> this message. Nov. 21st 2017 was a Tuesday. Spooky!
HG> I did now check everything I can set from the operating system, but there's
HG> no way to tell the OS the weekday name, so I'll probably have
HG> to reboot the machine to get at the BIOS settings.
HG> As the Subject says the problem is now solved.
VERY GOOD!
HG> It wasn't in the BIOS, but in the head of the user. There is a variable
HMMM, did some of the FOG in Ed's Head [TM] excape and traveled through the
Ether to Your part of the world.
NAH!, it couldn't do that, or could it.
HG> in the QWK-program named @DAY@ that I had used in the replay string but
HG> it gave the name of the day when I replied to the msg.
HG> There's another variable, @MSGDATE@ that I also use in that string, and
HG> that one picks the date from the message in the QWK-packet.
OUCH!!!!!
HG> Now, there's no day-of-week to pick from the QWK-packet so the program
HG> picks that weekday from the system instead.
And No Reason for Ed to originate another message about observing what
puzzled Him.
HG> I have now experimented with various variants of the init string and
HG> found that I simply have to abstain of the use of the weekday.
HG> This message may still use one of the experimental strings, but from
HG> now on, the weekday will disappear from all replies.
"Ed DID IT".
Here is a entry I put in My Multi-Mail DOS MMAIL.RC :
# Quote header for replies (non-internet)
QuoteHead:%d %f wrote to %t about %s
I was proud to see that I (FINALLY) got MM to type that line for Me.
You know how lazy a LID can be.
I will have to look in MM's DOC's to see what they say about those @DAY@
and @MSGDATE@ Variables. Another ROUNDTUIT................
But I do like learning, and am glad that I still can.
The pass three weeks I've tried to help a neighbor get His DELL Precision
M20 XP notebook to let Him use Wi-Fi on it.
And I knew nothing about how Wi-Fi worked on His pc, and still don't know
much after finally stumbling on what it takes to get the Wi-Fi LED to
light up on His notebook.
When I got a new Epson All-In-One a few years ago, the first thing I did
to IT was turn the Wi-Fi Setting OFF on it, since I have Cables connected
to everything I use with My computer stuff.
He let me take it home with me and when I took the notebook back to Him,
He told me that He decided to buy a Nextbook Tablet and put the DELL in a
closet.
That is what "Head Scratching" I've been doing while You've been Solving
the Problem I started about Your BBS message DOW (Day-Of-Week).
73 de Ed W9ODR . .
... When I'm not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded.
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