Re: A short Yarn
From: Andrew Hodgson (andrew@hodgsons.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 17:58:47 +0100
In article <dzs+3QS0B42J092yn@xprt.net>, jko@xprt.net (Jeff Owens) wrote:
>My old shell account wasn't working very well and the
>ISP long ago gave up supporting UQWK so i recently upgraded
>to a POP3 account. This was followed by weeks of trying
>mail readers and news readers. I went from linux to Win98
>and tried most of the commercial packages. Lots of bells
>and whistles, but too many mouse clicks for me. Actual
>reading speed is much faster using YARN's keyboard
>commands. Some of the newsreaders claimed fast offline
>performance by doing a header scan first then downloading
>the articles of interest. I found this to be a waste
>of time and tedious.
>
>So... i'm back using YARN. The free AutoIt program along
>with SOUPER95 made YARN happy with Win98. The
>only problem i have left is recovering from an aborted
>souper95 download. Has anyone else had this problem?
>
>If anyone wants info. on how to automate YARN on Win98 with
>a simple menu front end, yell.
>
>jeff
I take it that this is the autoit program?? What is it like??
I have a number of safeguards in the batch file which try and safeguard souper
in case of downloads in os/2, however, if it fails, it tends to screw up quite a
bit. I have never managed it on os/2, so I am not sure about w98.
>
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Sincerely,
Andrew.
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