Subj : Re: Best OLMR for Windows
To   : Jasen Betts
From : William McBrine
Date : Fri Nov 03 2000 05:54 pm

-=> Jasen Betts wrote to George Lagergren <=-

 JB> (there is also a 16 bit dos version [of MultiMail] but last I heard
 JB> it wasn't supported by william.)

WTF? Yes, I released the 16-bit version in an experimental form a couple weeks 
before 0.34. But from 0.34 on, it's been just as "supported" as any other 
version.

 JB> does that dos doesn't, dos apps will run in the dos box but they
 JB> usually miss out on the windows stuff (one of the more obvious things
 JB> would be LFNs)

The situation is slightly more complicated with regard to LFNs -- in Win9x, 
there's a DOS-compatible (interrupt-based) interface to the LFNs that's used, 
for example, by all DJGPP-compiled programs (incl. MultiMail/DOS). In NT, 
however, that interface is unavailable. Hence I've sometimes said that the main 
purpose of the Win32 port of MultiMail was to get long filenames under NT. ;-)

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