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As many of you know, I have been away for some time, and am freshly back in the fold :o) I've been working on the Qeyboard, and pushing for ethernet hardware to be available, so we can help John Dent finish his TCP/IP stack - which I suspect will do more for the QL than most realise. I've also signed up to write an email client for all. Signed up, in the "I'm dedicating myself to this task" sense of the word. However, I've been away for a very long time, and have forgotten most of my QL-related programming knowledge, having become fat and lazy with my bash shell and gcc compiler. Therefore, I'm asking you what tools you think I should take advantage of and what tools to avoid. I have to build a software library from scratch, which I am sure will make the traders happy ;) Also, the way I am writing my mail client will practically require an 80 column width, and reasonably 25 rows. What suggestions do people have to do that, make it functional, and not be a screen hog? Finally, I plan to make the project Open Source in the true sense of the word. I will publish the sources and others are free to work on them. All I ask is that they feed back any improvements to me so they can be incorporated into my main release. The initial program would most likely be in SBASIC, to demonstrate the sections and modules (emails viewer, email viewer, editor, config, etc) but when I get back into the flow, I would prefer to go with C. Also, I have very kindly been loaned a Gold Card. This will open up some horizons for me, but I do want to make sure the program will run on even the most basic QL. Advice please! Dave http://ql.spodmail.com/
