j4: (dodecahedron)
j4 ([personal profile] j4) wrote2004-06-11 04:26 pm

mutt query / NT query

Anybody know how to concatenate two emails in mutt so you can reply to both in a single email? ([livejournal.com profile] julietk, I'm sure you've told me how to do this before, but I'm a dozy moo and I can't remember & I can't find it in my read-mail.) I could just save one out as a file & read it in when replying to the other one, but then all the quoting would have to be fixed by hand, which is a pain.

Also a quick WinNT query: does anybody know if there's a way to automatically resize a picture for your desktop?

[identity profile] imc.livejournal.com 2004-06-11 08:33 am (UTC)(link)
reply to both in a single email?

If I tag them with `t' and then reply with `;r' it seems to do the right thing.

[identity profile] j4.livejournal.com 2004-06-11 08:42 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you! That does exactly what I wanted it to do.

I feel quite stupid now. I was looking for something like reply-to-many but I really should have worked out that "do the next command to everything tagged" would apply to "reply" as well... D'oh. :-/
sparrowsion: (cat5)

[personal profile] sparrowsion 2004-06-11 08:37 am (UTC)(link)
resize a picture for your desktop

Doesn't just selecting the picture and setting "Picture Display" to "Stretch" (at least, that's what the options on W2K are -- I know they keep buggering about with the display dialog) DTRT?

[identity profile] j4.livejournal.com 2004-06-11 08:39 am (UTC)(link)
Selecting the picture where/how?
sparrowsion: (cat5)

[personal profile] sparrowsion 2004-06-11 08:41 am (UTC)(link)
Settings -> Display Properties -> Background

[identity profile] j4.livejournal.com 2004-06-11 10:22 am (UTC)(link)
Ah. That explains it. They've disabled Settings. :-(

(When I said our machines were locked-down, I wasn't kidding.)
sparrowsion: (cat5)

[personal profile] sparrowsion 2004-06-12 10:41 am (UTC)(link)
The other way of accessing it is right-click on the desktop, then one of the menu options brings up the Display Settings dialog. I guess that's locked down too, though....
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[personal profile] rmc28 2004-06-13 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Our PC support people are not known for their tolerance and understanding toward the technically-literate user that would like to do things themselves rather than wait for a school-leaver trainee to find time to come and do it instead.