Re: Eudora users - Did you know that...
Re: Eudora users - Did you know that...
- Subject: Re: Eudora users - Did you know that...
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 13:45:36 -0500
On 03/20/2003 13:13, "John Delacour" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Cmd-F "card" yields
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> <x-eudora-setting:157> No other entries for "card" in X-Eudora-Settings.
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> There are no scriptable settings for vCard in Eudora's
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> x-eudora-settings, it appears, at least by the criteria JD has given.
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Dear, oh dear! you are a sad bunch.
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I give you a URL to get the file and you go to an outdated to disprove me.
The file version is not the point.
The Eudora version is not the point.
When you scream about bad dictionaries, and then 70% of the real power of
Eudora , (which you hold up as the *example* of a scriptable email app),
requires you to know the Secret URL that gives you the hidden codes so that
you can get real work done....
Well, it means that most of your complaints look silly. Eudora needs to get
over itself, and Qualcomm needs to do more than the absolute minimum
required for Eudora. Right now, it's a hideous example of a dictionary,
because you *HAVE TO HAVE* the uber-file to really use it.
No,no, no, nO, NO! The dictionary needs to be able to act as the first, and
most useful source of documentation for scripting an application. Period.
No, "Oh, you didn't know about the secret TidBITS file? Silly luser, u r not
red-e"
This is not a negotiable concept. The dictionary either helps you script, or
makes you throw your hands up in disgust.
I don't care about cool toolbars, I don't care about email search speed. I
care that when i look at a dictionary, I can get a feel for what I can do
with the app. If this takes me more than about 20 minutes, and a web site
visit, screw it, I'm finding another way.
john
--
"In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel
so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military."
- General of the Army Douglas MacArthur
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