Hi all,
On Friday, October 22, 1999, 10:34:09 PM (-5 GMT), Steve scribbled:
> Not to mention that with the common trend of trying to stuff
>everything into single applications people who *like* to use small,
>specialized applications are constantly switching as their current >
>favorites grow to "compete".
That's very true. ICQ is very bloated now, providing you with all
sorts of fandangles that are unnecessary because the functionality is
already provided with other applications that are on most users
systems. So is getright and I ignored zipmagics upgrade which is also
trying to do everything (they'll soon include a little antivirus
program for heavens sake.
>> For instance, here is my software use:
> For comparison here is my list for Linux then Windows. ;)
>> Mail TB
> L: Mutt
> W: TB!, PMMail
>> Usenet News Agent
> L: SLRN
> W: nothing (would be, uhm, XNews, I think)
^^^^^
That's a good one though it's an online
newsreader. Not much offline reading
functionality built in.
>> Browser Opera
> L: Netscape, Lynx
> W: Opera
>> FTP Cute FTP
> L: lftp
> W: LeechFTP
>> D/L Manager Getright
> N/A (FTP everything possible)
>> Pic Viewer ACDSee
> L: gtksee
> W: ACDSee
>> Telnet CRT 3.0
> L: telnet, ssh
> W: TeraTerm Pro w/TTSSH extentions
>> IM/chat ICQ
> L: licq, micq
> W: ICQ
>> Chat mIRC
> L: BitchX
> W: Xircon
>> Clipboard Clipmate
> N/A
I use clipcache here.
>> Text Textpad 4
> L: vim
> W: vim
> (as an aside, vim is also my mail editor on Linux, I'd like it to be on TB! as
> TB!'s editor only has real-time spell checking going for it, and it is also my
> news editor and my programming editor. IE, Windows forces me to use 4
> different editors with different keybindings and capabilities. Unix lets me
> pick one editor that does it all and does it damned good. *That* is a prime
> example of using specialized programs for the task at hand.
NoteTabPro and WinEdt are great.
> I'm sure mine differs as well. I try to go with free software whenever
> possible. That is why I use TeraTerm Pro instead of SecureCRT. TTP with
> TTSSH extenstions has the same feature set that I need as SecureCRT and costs
> $99 less. Aside from Opera, PMMail (which I no longer really use) & Quicken98
> there isn't much software on the Windows side that I've paid for and I don't
> think there is any in which I am violating the license.
There's a lot of functionality required to make newsreading effective.
It doesn't simply entail making TB support the NNTP protocol. Once
newsreading is included, TB developers would be busy trying to make
the newsreading functionality worthwhile and ignoring the refinement
of the e-mail manager which is what the app was originally designed to
do. Leave me out of that. I used Agent for my e-mail management before
TB! but stopped because it simply didn't manage my mail as effectively
as TB did. The Agent developers refused to create too much software
bloat and I appreciate them for that.
--
Regards,
-=Ali=-
>>> Oxymoron: Standard deviation. <<<
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