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DELIVER UNIPLEX MAIL ON A PC |
We've just had a flash from Small World, the developers of DELIVER, which allows you to read your Uniplex mail from a PC. Apparently there is a Y2K+1 (2001) bug which mis-calculates dates starting from the year 2001.
If you are a Deliver user please contact us for details on updating your system.
See http://www.c2000.com/products for more information
TUDOR MAINTENANCE RELEASE |
We have just completed updates to TUDOR, our Uniplex to Word document conversion utility. The principal area of change is in the handling of rulers under Quality mode. Ruler sizes are now more accurately calculated. This means you get better conversions in general and specifically with tables.
If you are on the maintenance plan then please contact us to arrange your free update (porting excluded). If you are not on maintenance then please call and we can discuss the most cost-effective way of getting an upgrade.
For those of you who don’t know, TUDOR is a document conversion utility written to specifically convert Uniplex documents to Word format files (in RTF). There really is no other package like it - this is a high quality conversion and used in small and large sites alike, including some major multi-nationals.
It sits alongside our other packages, TUSCANY for spreadsheets and MEXICO for mail.
See http://www.c2000.com/products for more information
DEMON SURFTIME ACCOUNTING ERRORS |
We advised a few newsletters ago that if you are using a Demon ISP account that you should probably upgrade to their Premier Connect package allowing unlimited connection time for no cost (in conjunction with BT's Surftime).
Since then we've had billing problems, Demon may not have consistently credited any existing time left on your regular dial up account. In our case we had 11 months to run, but on upgrading Demon failed to refund that amount, instead only billed for the new Connect package.
So, be warned, you may want to check your Demon bills if you have upgraded. We certainly not suggesting all billing is incorrect nor that this is anything but accidental, but their description of the process for billing these upgrades did not fill us with confidence...
See http://www.c2000.com/ for more information
QCHECK - NETWORK SPEED CHECKER |
Qcheck is a great utility for testing what's happening on your Internet connection. It checks network throughput, determines what rate you can handle streaming video and sound and how much packet loss takes place. You can also test computer to computer. It handles a range of network protocols too.
Runs on Windows 95, NT and 2000 and its completely free.
See http://www.c2000.com/software for more information
SLASHED 0 TO GIVE Ø |
If you are just looking for a quick way to make your 0's stand out from your O's (yep that zero and oh) then you can use slashed O's like this Ø.
You can just press Ctrl-/ then Shift-O (Shift Oh) to get a slashed O. This won't be treated as a number by Word (or anything else) as it is strictly a letter, but for distinguising your oh's and zeroes its fine.
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
STARTING AND STOPPING W2K SERVICES FROM THE COMMAND LINE |
This can be simply done using: See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
After you've installed NT and got your box up and running you've decided (wisely) to copy the NT installation onto the hard disk, but how do you stop all the install options looking in the wrong place. Another Registry hack, set the new drive and path under these keys: See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
A common problem when looking at great columns of numbers is making the special cases stand out. You can use the IIF() and FORMAT() functions to provide some measure of control over how individual controls are displayed, but you can also See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
Not strictly a Uniplex question, more of a Unix solution as you can use this technique to automatically start any program as a user logins. See http://www.c2000.com/uniplex for more information
For a long while we never had a newsletter subscription box on the home page. We have plenty of new subscriptions each week from the newsletter pages themselves, but we were really missing an opportunity, putting the sign-up on the front page boosted each weeks subscriptions enormously.
Split window views onto the same document is not something you need all the time, but when you remember to use split window it can be very useful and save all that time consuming scrolling up and down. You can turn it on and off quickly from the keyboard with: See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
Topic: Re: Bra Clasps See http://www.c2000.com/fun for more information
net stop
net start
You can find the service name using the Admin tools. If you the service name has spaces in it then use quotes around the name.
Net stop "microsoft unused service thingy"
CHANGING INSTALLATION DRIVE
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SourcePath HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\SourcePath
ACCESS: ADVANCED FORMATTING FOR SPECIAL CASES
Want to show debits in red?
use the Format event to give even greater flexibililty and the option to affect more than one control (or even section) at a time.
Let's say you want to indicate all debits > 10,000 in red and make a graphic arrow visible which points to the offending line. In the Format event for the report's Detail section add:
Private Sub Detail_Format(Cancel As Integer, FormatCount As Integer)
' [Debits] is the field we are testing
' [FldDebits] is the control on the report
' [ImgArrow] is an image control of the arrow on the report
If Me![Debits] >= 10000 Then
' Make the field show Red and the Arrow visible
Me![FldDebits].ForeColor = vbRed
Me![ImgArrow].Visible = True
Else
' Make the field show black (normal) and the arrow
' invisible
Me![FldDebits].ForeColor = vbBlack
Me![ImgArrow].Visible = False
End If
End Sub
That example uses the Format event to modify two controls at one time. You can use the section say to make a whole series of controls visible or invisible under certain circumstances.
You can also control whole sections in the same way. Just set the section's Visible property to False.
HOW CAN I FORCE USERS TO START UNIPLEX AUTOMATICALLY
Find in the users home directory the file called ".profile" (yes, the leading dot is significant). At then end of the file add the line:
exec uniplex
Note: that dot means that the file might be hidden by your Unix system, use "ls -a" to see all hidden files starting with a dot.
DON’T FALL FOR THE GREAT HOME PAGE MISTAKE
Learn our lesson
QUICKLY SPLIT THE WORD WINDOW
Easy viewing of two parts of the document
Ctrl + Alt + S Split document window
Alt + Shift + C Remove split window
SUBJECT: RE: BRA CLASPS
Seen on the Internet - a slice of real Net life
From: m******
Newsgroups: alt.fan.cecil-adams
"Lisa" writes:
> ...Well, we are card carrying nudists...
How do you carry your card?
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