Re: Eudora users - Did you know that...
Re: Eudora users - Did you know that...
- Subject: Re: Eudora users - Did you know that...
- From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 13:55:18 -0700
At 13:45 -0500 3/20/03, John C. Welch wrote:
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When you scream about bad dictionaries . . . . .
At least part of the problem is the too-structured format that is required by Apple for dictionaries. There isn't room for the kind of comments that would be helpful. I don't think it would be possible for Qualcomm to add a URL for the secret web site to be presented in the dictionary.
That's also partly the reason it isn't obvious that you can loop through selected messages by moving used ones away. Dictionaries offer little unless one has some background in O-O thinking, and Stroustrup's book on C++ doesn't help at all. Man pages would be nice.
John's work is helpful. Most of us would be nowhere without it. But it's not his job to provide the definitive documentation. Apple ought to provide a dictionary format that encourages understanding for the rest of us and then Qualcomm ought to fill in the blanks. They are, after all, the only people who can answer the questions without guessing or experimentation. They have the source code!
Right now I'd like to tell Eudora to select all messages in the active Mailbox so I can loop through all of them. I'd also like to know the difference between a message ID and a message numeric index. Which, if either, is in use when I refer to "message 0"? What is the relationship to the RFC 822 Message-ID header? The dictionary doesn't help a bit and I'm reluctant to ask here because I don't want an example or a solution to a current problem. I want an academic answer that will help me to understand.
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