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 Message 446 
 Martin Foster to Al Thompson 
 New Winpoint user 
 14 Feb 22 08:36:55 
 
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Hello Al!

*** Sunday 13.02.22 at 23:57:40, Al Thompson wrote to All:

 AT> Hello All. New Winpoint user here, after many years away from Fidonet.

Welcome back and welcome to the world of WinPoint :-)

 AT> Installation was painless,

Excellent :)

 AT> especially compared to the days of struggling to get
 AT> X00/Binkley/QuickBBS, and all of the required axilliary programs running.

Ah yes, happy days! ;)

 AT> One nagging issue I am having, it that during message entry, every
 AT> character I type appears to be followed by a space, no matter what font
 AT> or font size I try.

I've *never* seen that happen here.

 AT> Also, after I first got it configured and running, I exited by hitting
 AT> the "X" in the upper right corner.

I *always* do that.

 AT> I suspect that this didn't properly close all of the files, because I got
 AT> an error when I tried to run it again.

No errors here, how strange ??

Do you remember what the error message was? 

 AT> Reinstalling, and telling it to overwrite the configuration files got it
 AT> fixed.  Since then, I have used FILE|EXIT to quit, and haven't had any
 AT> trouble.

Well, at least you've fixed it :)

 AT> Is this a known issue?

Nope.

Regards,
Martin
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