"Gail Shaw" <gsh### [at] monotixcoza> wrote in message
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>
> "Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
> news:3bbac978@news.povray.org...
> >
> >   That was not what he posted. You should fix your news reader.
> >
>
> Unfortunatly it doesn't seem to be fixable. I spent several hours looking
> through
> options, the help file and the registry and I didn't find a way to stop
> outlook
> putting file: before every // that's followed by characters

    There's no way. Warp knows that, he is telling you that he thinks you
should run Linux and loose everything that you chose windows for to fix this
one oddity. Usually putting a space or a third "/" works just as well as
purchasing and installing a new OS what with all the new hardware you have
to buy to support it and the learning curve to make it do anything.

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Tom Melly <tom### [at] tomandlucouk> wrote:
:>   Then you should use a news reader which doesn't corrupt articles.

: With you knack of making obvious but useless comments, I sense a fine career in
: IT support....

  No, it was a sarcastic comment, which is a different thing. ;)

-- 
#macro N(D,I)#if(I<6)cylinder{M()#local D[I]=div(D[I],104);M().5,2pigment{
rgb M()}}N(D,(D[I]>99?I:I+1))#end#end#macro M()<mod(D[I],13)-6,mod(div(D[I
],13),8)-3,10>#end blob{N(array[6]{11117333955,
7382340,3358,3900569407,970,4254934330},0)}//                     - Warp -

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Bill DeWitt <bde### [at] cflrrcom> wrote:
:     There's no way. Warp knows that, he is telling you that he thinks you
: should run Linux and loose everything that you chose windows for to fix this
: one oddity.

  Your infinite wisdom seems to fail here.

  (First you ignore all my posts. Then you put words in my mouth. I'm starting
to get annoyed...)

-- 
#macro N(D,I)#if(I<6)cylinder{M()#local D[I]=div(D[I],104);M().5,2pigment{
rgb M()}}N(D,(D[I]>99?I:I+1))#end#end#macro M()<mod(D[I],13)-6,mod(div(D[I
],13),8)-3,10>#end blob{N(array[6]{11117333955,
7382340,3358,3900569407,970,4254934330},0)}//                     - Warp -

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On Wed, 3 Oct 2001 09:18:59 -0400, Bill DeWitt wrote:
>
>"Gail Shaw" <gsh### [at] monotixcoza> wrote in message
>news:3bbad2b0@news.povray.org...
>>
>> "Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
>> news:3bbac978@news.povray.org...
>> >
>> >   That was not what he posted. You should fix your news reader.
>> >
>>
>> Unfortunatly it doesn't seem to be fixable. I spent several hours looking
>> through
>> options, the help file and the registry and I didn't find a way to stop
>> outlook
>> putting file: before every // that's followed by characters
>
>    There's no way. Warp knows that, he is telling you that he thinks you
>should run Linux and loose everything that you chose windows for to fix this
>one oddity. Usually putting a space or a third "/" works just as well as
>purchasing and installing a new OS what with all the new hardware you have
>to buy to support it and the learning curve to make it do anything.

Quite true.  Alternatively, you can be aware of this minor limitation with 
your newsreader and fix it when it bothers you.  Unfortunately, I'm having
trouble finding a way to add that extra space and/or slash to my signature
to make it Outlook-friendly; anyone got any suggestions?  I can find a space
for the RON part, it's the PARKER part that seems intractable.

-- 
#macro R(P)z+_(P)_(P)_(P+1)_(P+1)+z#end#macro Q(C)bicubic_patch{type 1u_steps 6
v_steps 6R(1)R(3)R(5)R(7)translate 9*z-2pigment{rgb z}}#end#macro _(Y)#local X=
asc(substr(C,Y,1))-65;<mod(X,4)div(X,4)>#end#local O=union{Q("ABEFUQWS")Q(// RON
"WSXTLOJN")}Q("JNKLCGCD")union{O}union{O translate 3*x}light_source{x 1}//PARKER

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"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message news:3bbb13e1@news.povray.org...
> Tom Melly <tom### [at] tomandlucouk> wrote:
> :>   Then you should use a news reader which doesn't corrupt articles.
>
> : With you knack of making obvious but useless comments, I sense a fine career
in
> : IT support....
>
>   No, it was a sarcastic comment, which is a different thing. ;)
>

Even better. Your new career awaits...

Some useful tips:

Customers don't lie, but some problems may be attributable to "user errors".
Customers don't make stupid mistakes, they suffer from "intermittant and
unreproducable faults". Customers don't make unrealistic demands, they
"contribute to future development". Customers do not expect the impossible, they
"are not fully aware of the inherant limitations of computer programs..."

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"Ron Parker" <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote in message
news:slr### [at] fwicom...
>
> Quite true.  Alternatively, you can be aware of this minor limitation with
> your newsreader and fix it when it bothers you.  Unfortunately, I'm having
> trouble finding a way to add that extra space and/or slash to my signature
> to make it Outlook-friendly; anyone got any suggestions?  I can find a space
> for the RON part, it's the PARKER part that seems intractable.
>

Hey, Outlook isn't doing it to me anymore! Hmm, OE 6 under Win2000 would appear
to be a solution. f-ups set...

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"Ron Parker" <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote in message
news:slr### [at] fwicom...

> Quite true.  Alternatively, you can be aware of this minor limitation with
> your newsreader and fix it when it bothers you.  Unfortunately, I'm having
> trouble finding a way to add that extra space and/or slash to my signature
> to make it Outlook-friendly; anyone got any suggestions?  I can find a
space
> for the RON part, it's the PARKER part that seems intractable.

You don't have to. Outlook will only put the file: in front of // when the
// is preceeded by
a space and followed by a character.

this will be file'd
Test file://test

But this won't
Test//test

> asc(substr(C,Y,1))-65;<mod(X,4)div(X,4)>#end#local
O=union{Q("ABEFUQWS")Q(// RON
> "WSXTLOJN")}Q("JNKLCGCD")union{O}union{O translate 3*x}light_source{x
1}//PARKER

Gail
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On Wed, 3 Oct 2001 09:18:59 -0400, "Bill DeWitt" <bde### [at] cflrrcom>
wrote:

>    There's no way. Warp knows that, he is telling you that he thinks you
>should run Linux and loose everything that you chose windows for to fix this
>one oddity. 

Where did you read this? Warp said something about using a proper
newsreader and mentioned nothing about OSs. I, for example, am using
Agent and Pegasus instead of Outlook and am quite happy with that. I
am virus-safe, the software doesn't try to think instead of me, and
follows the standards. These are all things Outlook failed on for me.

Oh, and I can run them under Linux, too, if I want to, and often do.
This is, however, not the main point, though it plays a role.


Peter Popov ICQ : 15002700
Personal e-mail : pet### [at] vipbg
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