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export
, bound to: Alt-W ¶Export the text of the current message to a file or printer port. You will be shown a dialog box where you can enter a filename and some other options. See Exporting Mails to Text Files or to the Printer, for further information.
selchs
, bound to: Alt-T ¶This will show a select box where you can manually select which codepage or
character set you think the messages that you are reading are in. You only
need this in two cases: Either when some idiot is inserting a wrong CHRS
kludge into this mail, or when a mail does not have a CHRS kludge and it is
not written in the character set that you have specified as argument
to the AssumeCharset
keyword (see The AssumeCharset
Keyword.
An example would be if you have configured your computer with ‘AssumeCharset 850’ because you usually write in a Western European language, but ocasionally read Russian echomail. Then, if the Russian mail does not have a charset kludge, you would need to press Alt-T and manually select ‘CP866 2’ in order to view the proper transcription of the cyrillic text.
The selection that you make lasts until you make a differnt one, or until you quite MsgEd TE.
shell
, bound to: Alt-O ¶Call an operating system shell (prompt). Under DOS, MsgEd TE is swapped out of memory for this.
dos
, bound to: ! ¶Directly execute an operating system command.
null
, not pre-bound to any key. ¶Simply does nothing.
exit
, bound to: Alt-X, Alt-A and Esc ¶Leave the message reading mode. Returns to the arealist screen.