Re: testing; and a few questions

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 10:32:50PM -0000, [email protected] wrote:
> Hope this is just a low traffic group, I subscribed a week ago
> but haven't seen posts (unless they got lost in the spam array)

usualy this is a very low traffic mailinglist, yes.

> For some reason, my old academic account downgraded tin to an
> ancient version, so I looked for a windows-ready version of tin

tin can be compiled on windows in the cygwin-environment

> (ready to move out from that old account) but didn't see much, 
> so instead I downloaded and compiled the latest for Solaris.
> 
> It's 1.6.2, and I got very use to 1.4.X--I've managed to undo
> a few new features that I found unhelpful, but there are still a 
> few things:
> 
> 1. is there any way to actually turn off the coloring used for 
>    _text_ *like* /this/? I thought the option 
>    "Word highlighting in message body : OFF" 
>    would do it, but it still changes the color. I guess i could just
>    have it display mark instead of mark and set everything else to 
>    black, but it's still annoying.

you have to restart tin to activate the new setting (yes, this is a
bug).

> 2. A bigger concern: old tin used to display the header for the first
>    page of a message, but not on any following pages. Is there anyway
>    to get that old behavior?  It was convenient to clearly see when one 
>    article was still going and when the next one had started...

no

urs
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