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   Paul S Person to Hey   
   Re: Big Sur OS Not Supporting Unison   
   25 Feb 21 08:39:46   
   
   From: psperson1@ix.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 01:15:42 -0500, Hey  wrote:   
      
   >On 2021-02-25 04:31:14 +0000, customer@avservices.com said:   
   >   
   >> I'm using it successfully as far as I've gotten (just a few minutes) on   
   >> Big Sur. It worked fine on Catalina even though it's not supposed to.   
   >>   
   >> Only problem I've found so far is that click-selecting is not working.   
   >> IOW to expand and collapse threads. The arrow keys substitute, but an   
   >> item has to be active first, so if you're stepping down in a list you   
   >> need to down arrow, click, down arrow, click, etc.   
   >>   
   >> OOps. I can't drag and drop to select a group from the "all" list. I'm   
   >> working on that now.   
   >>   
   >> People who say you have to move on from Unison don't understand what   
   >> Unison does in terms of browsing. The more modern substitutes work fine   
   >> for getting at newsgroups that have been indexed, but you need Unison   
   >> (or another application on a Windows box) to actually browse all the   
   >> groups.   
   >   
   >There are a number of keyboard/mouse/trackpad issues introduced by Big   
   >Sur that affect a lot of applications more current than the Unison   
   >usenet browser so I suspect a fix will happen soon which will help   
   >Unison as an unintended byproduct.   
   >   
   >The "all" list problem in the Unison usenet browser is easy to work   
   >around as the drag and drop works fine in the tabular listing of all   
   >groups. Other problems are more annoying: for example you choose an   
   >item on a list and in some types of lists your choice is a line off,   
   >other lists 3 off; most lists fine. In many other cases drag and drop   
   >is not working so, for example, you can't sort your group listings (at   
   >least I haven't found a way yet).   
      
   Sounds like a Red Box touch screen I came across a few years ago.   
      
   And, of course, the occasional mis-aligned ATM touch screen.   
      
   >BTW why is this on a Tokien group? I'm pretty sure he never used the   
   >Unison newsgroup browser and he ertainly isn't uing it now.   
      
   I have no idea.   
      
   Perhaps he thought people here were friendly enough to help him.   
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   "I have envied him long since."   
      
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