Win7 Heads-up

On any Macintosh sold in this century, GNU bash and all its bashrc support is there for you. OS X is fully standards-compliant UNIX, (Posix/IEEE 1003.1)). Mainly, Linux experience is directly applicable.

Pre-Unix MacOS was back in the days of under-a-gigabyte hard drives. That's been a while...

Hard disc? That Mac had a single 800k floppy.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

I have a few bugs with Eudora lately. Often when I want to open or explore an attachment, those options are greyed out on the context menu. Occasionally the icon in the taskbar will get stuck in the "new mail" state. Eventually this will clear itself, but it may take days. Any ideas?

The GUI is put on low priority, that is the user interface.

If your PC is very busy the screen updates will prolong and things like menus, buttons will be non responsive, etc.

Clean your machine..

Jamie

I've had zero problems with Eudora v7.1.0.9 on Win7

Some other programs, not so lucky :-( ...Jim Thompson

The user interface is fine. It is just the icon displayed on the task bar. The CPUs are usually

Me thinks you have a transparent window sitting over your apps at times and it's not operating properly to allow the contents to repaint and pass your mouse and keyboard strokes through it..

This is typical with keyboard loggers, desktop snap shot funny apps running in the background. You may want to show your network ICONS and watch for activity when you start getting this issue.. Of course, you could have something as simple as a stuck KEY

Jamie

Stuck key? What are you talking about???

On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 21:37:02 -0500, rickman Gave us:

He says some of the most stupid shit ever.

Have you checked that there is an application associated with the filetypes that you want to open? I have sometimes seen Thunderbird baulk at opening malformed Office documents with errors in them.

Saving to disk and then opening in something more fault tolerant usually works provided the document attachment isn't too corrupt.

I have seen icons go black and fail to refresh when the system has been run continuously for a very long time and is on the verge of running out of filehandles, free memory or something like that. Haven't seen it happen at all since moving to x64 versions of the OS though.

Painting the screen is low priority (the WM_PAINT message), but other ones are much higher. Foreground processes get a priority boost, including their repaints.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

If it were one or two documents that I couldn't open directly in the application that might be a reasonable assumption. When it happens, it is across the board. The Eudora context menu has options for

Open Attachment With... Save Attachment As... Explore Attachment... etc.

For a couple of days I could open no attachments. The other attachment options were also grayed out. Today some new attachments came in that I can open through the context menu. The ones I couldn't open this way earlier still can't be opened. I even looked at the source and found the link to the file and when copied to a browser address bar opens the file fine.

This is not a bid deal. I am so used to Eudora that I would be hard pressed to switch. I just thought there might be some here who still use it and might know something about this issue.

I sometimes have a problem with the black icons. That is in the context switch window that comes up when Alt-tab is pressed and the icons that pop up when mousing over the taskbar. I can get them back to normal by bringing each one to the foreground, but at some point the black icons come back. I have found it can be stopped by closing the browser windows. Reopening them gives some time before the black icons return. I have not been able to determine if it is caused by a particular web page(s) or if it is just the quantity sucking up some resource, memory, handles... The OS is Win8 64 bit version.

You say that because you don't have a clue what I am talking about do you?

That only shows your lack of real life experience with this crap, which does not shock me at all, really..

Jamie

On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 17:44:18 -0500, M Philbrook Gave us:

I have owned a couple hundred keyboards of various types over the years and have had ZERO "stuck keys", you fat fingered retard.

You should be shocked with a REACT taser belt. It would make a great video. It would also mean that you are in a jail where you belong.

On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 12:03:28 -0500, M Philbrook Gave us:

Another retarded presumption from the presumptuous SED retard.

Nice try though, putz.

On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 12:03:28 -0500, M Philbrook Gave us:

Idiot. It was a reference to the level of lies you tell. You really are an illiterate putz.

"Incharged"? You need grammar and composition coursework as well. Your stupidity level is transparent. You are a joke.

Plenty, putz boy.

There is no space between the question and the punctuation, IDIOT! You presumptuous nature shows that you are an elementary school playground bully wannabe.

Yes, you, putz!

Those that atached back with word salid, grammer complant, problems with how they were born etc, usually have nothing else to offer. Actually nothing at all to offer, Zero! Like you, a big fat ZERO.

What a useless SE turd.

Jamie