Below is an email from the Nettamer list by David Colston and my answer.
My purpose for posting this to the SURVPC list is to gather input from
a larger number of DOS internet users.
Comments anyone?
John Oram
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David:
I agree you cannot build an appication until you have a clear set of
specifications.
Obvioulsy, myself and, many others would like you to offer a standalone
DOS-based "socket".
How can the present users of Nettamer and other DOS-based "socket"
applications be of assistance to you in gathering the necessary
information?
Between the Nettamer and SURVPC list sthere are many people presently
using various versions of Nettamer. I'm sure some of these same people
also have experiences with other DOS-based applications that allow
editing of email, receiving of email, and storing of emails in some
form of a flat file listing or relational database.
"Uncle Dave" please give us a list of some of the things your
interested in learning and I for one will spend time researching them.
I hope others will join in and we can gather a lot of useful
information for you to make a decision in favor of this project.
I'll also copy this email and post it to the SURVPC list too.
John Oram
Sacramento, CA
David Colston wrote:
>
> The difficulty is not in the modularization of the program. A TSR is an
> entirely different critter than a stand-alone application. Remember that
> other programmers would need to call my routines. Typically this is done
> by calling specific DOS interrupts and there are conventions involved.
> The various Net-Tamer parts do not use such conventions, so it would require
> re-writting the code to whatever standard was used by the other programmers.
> This is the main reason that I have not done this in the past. Indeed, I am
> not sure what conventions are used by other "socket" applications and the
> exact division of labor between the calling program and the TSR.
>
> David Colston
> 'Uncle Dave'
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