OFFLINE MESSAGE READER!

Hi Folks!
Here's a cheap and easy way to keep up on the Geoworks message boards (or any other message board online) without breaking the bank.

The idea is simple: capture the messages while online, logoff, read them without concern over online charges. Here's how:

1. Logon.
2. Click on FILE. Click on LOGGING.
3. Pick Session Log (note: conference log is useful in capturing chatroom text to a file).
4. Click on OPEN.
5. Pick a directory and a filename for the session log. The default name is logfile.txt. You can leave it as that or change it to anything you want. If you really start using this method, you may prefer using the date as the logfile name: 09_20_91.txt for example.
6. Click on OK. You are now logging (or saving every bit of text you view to the file you just named. Only text will be saved so you won't see icons, online menus, etc.).
7. Do a Keyword Geoworks <enter>.
8. Click on Geoworks Product Message boards (or go to the beginner's room if you want to read it's message board).
9. Pick Find NEW. This will list all new messages since your last visit. Click on each message one at a time. You ONLY need to wait for it to finish displaying on the screen... then go to the next message. You needn't read it now. And don't worry if you don't hear a disk write. It its being saved. Continue moving through the messages in this way. It is VERY quick.
10. When you have reached the last message, click on FILE then LOGGING. 
11. Cllick on CLOSE. Click on OK.
12. Log off.

Now that you are offline, you can read through the messages at your leisure. To do this you may use the AOL's offline file reader (FILE/OPEN <filename>), the notepad, or GeoWrite (insert from text file).

If you wish to compose replies to messages.. you can write them offline then logon, relocate the message area you are responding to (I know, that's the hard part) then copy your reply to an "add message" screen via EDIT or Qucikcopy.

Don't be afraid to give this one a try. You'll be amazed at how quickly logging can capture informaton to disk for you!
Enjoy, Robyn :)