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- From: brucek@Ingres.COM (Bruce Kleinman)
- Subject: Re: PRODIGY New and improved STILL SUCKS, HORRIBLE as before
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.221240.24750@pony.Ingres.COM>
- Organization: Ingres, an ASK Company, Alameda CA 94501
- References: <1993Jan26.202207.26522@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1993Jan28.044358.18142@news.acns.nwu.edu> <1993Jan28.210536.9532@adobe.com>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 22:12:40 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan28.210536.9532@adobe.com> sherwood@adobe.com (Geoffrey Sherwood) writes:
- >
- >While I do enjoy the boards on Prodigy, they have one major failing that makes
- >them incredibly frustrating to use. To wit, the only thing they remember as
- >a criteria for reading news is your last logon time...
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- > ...Something like a .newsrc would be a major boon. I know there are
- >interface packages sold for Prodigy -- do any of them at least ameliorate
- >this problem (I think any real solution would have to come from P itself)?
-
- The package Pro-Util (I think you jump to Royston or some such name)
- has a macro facility which will automatically fill in bulletin board
- timestamps to whatever time you last invoked the macro. So you set up
- a macro for each board that you frequent, and you can pick up pretty
- much where you left off. You can still get messed up if the line drops
- while you're in the middle of a heap of postings, but it's a real
- improvement, and I recommmend the product. It also has a very useful
- print-to-disk function and a screen-grabber which outputs to PCX files.
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