Subj : Re: Problem solved
To   : Holger Granholm
From : Ed Vance
Date : Sun Dec 10 2017 04:25 am

11-25-17 11:48 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Problem solved
Howdy! Holger,

 HG> @MSGID: <5A29D639.1733.amtradio@capitolcityonline.net>
 HG> In a message on Thursday 11-21-17 Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:

 HG> GE Ed,

 EV> I ain't meaning to nit pick but 11-16-17 was a Thursday, wasn't it?

 HG> YES it was, you're correct and the same error is on the top line of
 HG> this message. Nov. 21st 2017 was a Tuesday. Spooky!

 HG> I did now check everything I can set from the operating system, but
 HG> there's no way to tell the OS the weekday name, so I'll probably have
 HG> to reboot the machine to get at the BIOS settings.

 HG> As the Subject says the problem is now solved.

VERY GOOD!

 HG> It wasn't in the BIOS, but in the head of the user. There is a variable

HMMM, did some of the FOG in Ed's Head [TM] excape and traveled through the
Ether to Your part of the world.
NAH!, it couldn't do that, or could it.

 HG> in the QWK-program named @DAY@ that I had used in the replay string but
 HG> it gave the name of the day when I replied to the msg.

 HG> There's another variable, @MSGDATE@ that I also use in that string, and
 HG> that one picks the date from the message in the QWK-packet.

OUCH!!!!!

 HG> Now, there's no day-of-week to pick from the QWK-packet so the program
 HG> picks that weekday from the system instead.

And No Reason for Ed to originate another message about observing what
puzzled Him.

 HG> I have now experimented with various variants of the init string and
 HG> found that I simply have to abstain of the use of the weekday.

 HG> This message may still use one of the experimental strings, but from
 HG> now on, the weekday will disappear from all replies.

"Ed DID IT".

Here is a entry I put in My Multi-Mail DOS MMAIL.RC :

# Quote header for replies (non-internet)
QuoteHead:%d %f wrote to %t about %s

I was proud to see that I (FINALLY) got MM to type that line for Me.
You know how lazy a LID can be.

I will have to look in MM's DOC's to see what they say about those @DAY@
and @MSGDATE@ Variables.   Another ROUNDTUIT................

But I do like learning, and am glad that I still can.

The pass three weeks I've tried to help a neighbor get His DELL Precision
M20 XP notebook to let Him use Wi-Fi on it.

And I knew nothing about how Wi-Fi worked on His pc, and still don't know
much after finally stumbling on what it takes to get the Wi-Fi LED to
light up on His notebook.

When I got a new Epson All-In-One a few years ago, the first thing I did
to IT was turn the Wi-Fi Setting OFF on it, since I have Cables connected
to everything I use with My computer stuff.

He let me take it home with me and when I took the notebook back to Him,
He told me that He decided to buy a Nextbook Tablet and put the DELL in a
closet.

That is what "Head Scratching" I've been doing while You've been Solving
the Problem I started about Your BBS message DOW (Day-Of-Week).

73 de Ed W9ODR     .                .


.... When I'm not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded.
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