RE: Xy3 text into Outlook E-mail

[Dorothy Day day@xxxxxxxx]

Peter,
	Could one difference be the existence of the EOF (Ctrl-Z)
character in Xy3, but perhaps disabled in Xy4? I have problems pasting
files into Pine if they contain that nasty little appendix, none if I
get rid of it. Outlook may be responding to the same factor.

	Dorothy

On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Peter Brown wrote:

>
> 	>-> I use Xy version 3.56. Some time ago I wrote a little kbd macro
> 	>-> ... to get Xy-composed text into E-mail messages. This has
> 	>-> worked well in Microsoft Exchange, but [not in] Microsoft
> 	<-> Outlook. ... I suspect the issue is 16 vs. 32 bit. I'm using
> 	>-> append file as text (not attachment) in both Exchange and in
> 	<-> Outlook. Outlook sees nothing. OTOH, using Xy4-DOS, Outlook
> 	<-> appends text just fine.
>
> 	>I can't imagine how Xy3 vs. Xy4 could possibly make a difference.
> 	>Or 16 vs. 32 bit. A text file is a text file. If it's visible to
> 	>Explorer, it should be visible to Outlook. Surely this is a
> 	>Microsoft issue.
>
> 	>I know zilch about Outlook -- but what, precisely, do you mean when
> 	>you say it "sees nothing"? In other words, you do what, and the
> 	>program responds how?
>
> 	It's even worse than I remembered. When I try to insert the file as
> text (Insert-File-File as text only-click on file name), nothing appears in
> the E-mail text window of Outlook, and Outlook crashes (!). I then back out
> of Outlook with Ctrl-Alt-Delete and End Program. (Now I remember why I quit
> doing this some time ago.)
>
> 	BTW, the imported file in question is created with the old XyQuest
> "printer driver" called mail.prn (as I mentioned, perhaps too briefly in
> passing, in my earlier post).
>
> 	Peter Brown
> 	pbrown@xxxxxxxx
>


*****
Dorothy Day			School of Library & Information Science
day@xxxxxxxx					   Indiana University
*****
	"He also surfs who only sits and waits."

 Oct 11, 1999: According to John Roth, chief executive of Nortel
 Networks, an estimated 2.5 billion hours were wasted online last
 year as people waited for pages to download.