Subj : Best Package for Windows?
To   : William McBrine
From : Jim Hanoian
Date : Sun Nov 05 2000 05:45 am

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

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

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

I honestly never heard of it before.  Most times, Windows programmers
want to give the GUI view.

I do use MTEL for my telnetting, and that's text mode...


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

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

OK, I see.


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

Having a heck of a time keeping links valid <sigh>.

 
 WM> separate out DPMI apps, at that... but then, where would the
 WM> madness end?)

I'm starting to wonder about that now <g>.


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

Oooops!  I'll get that fixed.  And yes, six years is an awfully
long time.


.... Jim Hanoian, Augusta, Maine, USA
.... The closest I got to a brainstorm was a light drizzle.
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