Hello, Holger.

This morning I have been fighting with T-bird. The swedish ham bulletin arrives as an attached .pdf file, and I have been trying to open it
after it has "downloaded", only to be greeted by T-bird that it can't be opened unless connected.

I do not think that this ia a TB problem. You need to as per my title, set the
default programme for any one file type. Find the Control Panel -> Default Program -> god down the list to .pdf -> upper right to change and follow the instructions. Kid's play !

I am shaken, because the PMMail in OS/2 didn't behave like that.

No help here at all, sorry. I do a little mail in Google, not much. I use TB
for old time sake and to read you. It has been down, I mean not used much lately, the old stand-by are quiet.

I only took a break from it, to read the Fido mail, so here I am !

And I too.

To keep the machine protected, AVG or not, I avoid to have it connected longer than necessary to send/rcv messages.

The best protection, as Alan once mentioned, is the interface between the KB
and the chair. I use here, Windows Defender, but mostly very careful web searches. Never had a virus nor a warning of any strange behaviour.

Spring is about here, no frost predicted for the week, yeah !

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In a message on Tuesday 03-08-16 Jean Parrot said to Holger Granholm:

Hi Jean,

This morning I have been fighting with T-bird. The swedish ham bulletin arrives as an attached .pdf file, ....

I do not think that this ia a TB problem. You need to as per my
title, set the default programme for any one file type. Find the
Control Panel -> Default Program -> god down the list to .pdf ->
upper right to change and follow the instructions. Kid's play !

Tnx for the advice, I'll see what I can do about it, but anyway I'm
opposed to have to download a 1Mb .pdf file, only to be able to extract
an 8 - 9 kb text file, whether the extraction is done locally or at ISP.

I use TB for old time sake and to read you. It has been down, I mean
not used much lately, the old stand-by are quiet.

I have used mail programs to gather ham bulletins from various sources,
to be read/downloaded by the ham fraternity in neighbouring countries,
via my BBS (HAM-BOX). Now I receive some of them via Fidonet also.

The best protection, as Alan once mentioned, is the interface
between the KB and the chair. I use here, Windows Defender, but
mostly very careful web searches. Never had a virus nor a warning of
any strange behaviour.

Neither have I had any virus attacks, even though the BBS is on 24/365,
but it runs under OS/2, not Windows.

In my oldest laptop (T23), Avira is installed, and it disables autorun.
That caused me a problem when I wanted to upgrade the XPp to SP3, so I
had to start the file manually. After several hours the upgrade was OK,
but I had to leave the machine on when I went out for the 2hr exercise.

Usually I never leave anything on (except the fridge), when I leave the apartment.

Spring is about here, no frost predicted for the week, yeah !

Yeah, it's around the corner here. The boat show in Stockholm has opened
and for us here, that means that the spring is here.

We haven't had frost now for several nights, but the night sun/mon
brought sleet, that melted quite quickly.


Have a good night,

Holger

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