Subj : oxp: PROS and CONS
To   : August Abolins
From : Martin Foster
Date : Thu May 09 2019 09:00:00

Hello August!

On 06.05.19 at 20:54, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

 MF>> OpenXP
 MF>> ======

 MF>> [CONS]
 MF>> No support for USB printers.
 MF>> No support for Wireless printers.

 AA> I've never gotten OXP to "print" anything for me.  I thought that at
 AA> least my options to select my *virtual printers*, CutePDF or OneNote2007,
 AA> would pop up as choices, but they don't.

 AA> BTW.. considering that OXP seems to inherit direct references to legacy
 AA> LPT1/2/3 etc.. for configuration, maybe the hacks out there to redirect
 AA> LPT# to USB# might work?

I wouldn't know about that but if a user has an old parallel port  
printer, that should work. Mine did back in the days when I used  
CrossPoint.

 MF>> [PROS]
 AA> ----------8<----------
 MF>> Twit filter.

 AA> How do you do that?  One shortcoming in OXP is the lack of overall Help
 AA> Search.  There is really no clue *where* to find certain features when I
 AA> want. :(

Yes, I have to agree and even a certain seasoned user has difficulty  
finding stuff now and again.

 AA> And some of the features that you cite could use a little more
 AA> explanation like this:

 AA>  Autopost feature.
 AA>  [Automatic Message-Sending] = Edit/Autosend

 AA>  This is the list of messages to be sent auto-
 AA>  matically. The list can have as many entries as you
 AA>  wish. Note: All auto-send messages must exist indivi-
 AA>  dually as files on the disk.

Yes, I could write the proverbial book about it all :-)

 AA> Autopost sounds very handy for the busy writer or sysop.

It's very handy for a moderator to automatically post the echo rules.

 MF>> Open source(GPLv2).
 MF>> Source freely available either by svn or by d/loadable ZIP archive.
 MF>> Actively developed.
 MF>> Responsive developer.

 AA> Again.. all good!  So, things like this would be great in the comparison
 AA> table as extra notes.

The reason why I added those as [PROS] was because all those four  
items don't apply to the other two Point programmes.

Regards,
Martin

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