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 Message 2214 
 Martin Foster to August Abolins 
 OXP: areas list = EASY! 
 19 Jan 21 11:33:00 
 
MSGID: 2:310/31.3@fidonet ec91d8b4
REPLY: 2:221/1.58@fidonet ec852160
PID: OpenXP/5.0.48 (Win32) (i386)
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Hello August!

*** Sunday 17.01.21 at 07:47, August Abolins wrote to All:

 AA> I recently added another Boss system to OpenXP.

What, another one :-)

 AA> Its arealist management system delivered the list in three parts:

 AA> URL: https://susepaste.org/71091834

Like the snapshot, very neat and tidy.

 AA> But with OpenXP's "w" option to write the message contents to a
 AA> file, I could select each message and produce one file
 AA> "areas.txt" that OpenXP that could then "import". From that, I
 AA> would have the entire list of areas to select from in one
 AA> operation.

Never tried that myself.

 AA> Furthermore, OpenXP's "select areas" function is pretty smart;
 AA> it doesn't care on what column an areaname begins (unlike what
 AA> Winpoint seems to need to know).

 AA> OpenXP = +1

+1 to that :-))

Regards,
Martin

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