Subj : Re: Best Package for Windows?
To   : Jim Hanoian
From : William McBrine
Date : Sat Nov 04 2000 03:48 pm

-=> Jim Hanoian wrote to William McBrine <=-

 JH> OS/2 programs generally do specify if they are text mode or PM, right?

Yeah. (Windows programs do, too; it's just that there aren't enough console 
apps for anybody to notice them much.)

 JH> If I was to make a Win32 text mode category, which other OLMRs
 JH> would fall into it?

Well, BlueMail of course; and from the "History" list, SkyReader. I haven't 
used any of the others myself... I'm not really a Windoze guy. ;-) There may in 
fact be no other Win32 console readers.

I just scanned the list to see what I could gather from screenshots --

 GUI
 ---
 BlueWave Explorer
 WinPoint95
 WorMS

 No screenshots
 --------------
 CyberQWK (but says GUI)
 MailMaker
 Mail Reader
 QWKBack

 404, etc.
 ---------
 Durango
 SoMail
 ZylFree

 JH> Would there have to be a Win 3.x text mode category?

No; there was never a native console mode for Win 3.1. (The closest thing would 
be 16-bit DPMI. It might make sense to separate out DPMI apps, at that... but 
then, where would the madness end?)

BTW, you have my address updated to wmcbrine@users.sourceforge.net on the 
MS-DOS page, but still have wmcbrine@clark.net on the other pages. My ClarkNet 
account is going away at the end of this billing period (about two weeks). 
Kinda makes me sad -- I had it for over six years, which is, like, *centuries* 
in Internet time. ;-)

.... I am Ross Perot of Borg. Resistance? Now that's just sad.
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