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Message   Martin Foster    August Abolins   point softare PROS and CONS   May 3, 2019
 2:57 PM *  

Hello August!

On 02.05.19 at 17:48, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

 >> Comments
 >> ========
 >>
 >> [Apoint] CONS
 >> -------------
 >> "- JAM support broken. Only Apoint message base (AMF) supported."
 >>
 >> way back in 2003, I said this: "APoint will handle a JAM message base
 >> that APoint itself has created ......". As development stopped
 >> sometime in 2001, I'm assuming that my statement from 2003 is still
 >> correct. However, we've recently discovered a cosmetic issue when
 >> converting an existing AMF format message area to JAM format. Based on
 >> all that, it may be better to say something along the lines of
 >> "Cosmetic issue after converting an AMF format area to JAM format".
 >> I'll leave it up to you to decide what to do :-)

 AA> So.. "Apoint JAM base = Proprietary + Fails to display Quantity of
 AA> messages in Area list.

Errrrrrrm, no, APoint AMF message base = proprietary.

 AA> To me, "cosmetic" would imply an affect on something that works but
 AA> renders differently.

Hmmmmm, I'll have to think about that one :)

 AA> In this case, message count is completely missing.  :(

Yes, that's correct but the messages are still there when you go into  
the message list.

Regards,
Martin

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