Hi there!
On 19 Nov 99, at 17:37, Steve Lamb wrote
about "Re: (SOT) Moo-ah, Met-ah, Med-ah an":
> >> The text editor would then not implement a spell check but,
>
> > The only programs under WinDOS that do exactly this (but
> > leave no choice to the users) is... guess what? Office+Outlook:-
> > )
>
> Quite the contrary, PMMail. ;)
Nope, PMMail will work with English only (well, actually I don't
know, but it *definitely* won't work with Russian, it's got
defective code that won't accept anything then western unicode
script correctly, and for Russian one needs cyrillic).
> >> This would free up time for the authors of the mail client to
> >> work on the mail client instead of reimplementing an editor
>
> > In theory, I'm on your side. But this is all Linux ideology, and
> > that's why Linux is great. But we live under WinDOS here:-(((
>
> In theory it is great and in practice it is, too. Sure, we live in WinDOS
> here but it doesn't mean we cannot take the high points of the other world and
> incorporate them here.
My point was: HOW? The answer to this "how?" needs to tell:
(a) what protocol should be used;
(b) how many third-party apps will be supported by it;
(c) what functionality will this protocol provide.
My own point is that DDE would almost fit, but it isn't supported
by the majority of software vendors.
> Like I said, I like how TB! and PMMail handle multiple
> accounts. There is nothing as elegant and power in the Unix
> world. I'm certainly not one to sit on that side of the fence
> and say "Hey, that's great in Windows, but we live under
> Linux."
Linux:
Alt-F1, login, mutt;
Alt-F2, login, mutt;
in the mutt#1 open one IMAP account, in the mutt#2 open
another. What else do you want? I simply don't understand,
*what* multiaccount functionality you need when working with
IMAP when the *account itself* stays on the server? Finally,
when using IMAP the basic idea is that you need only *one*
single account, since you're able to reach it from everywhere...
Or are you speaking about the "identities" actually?
> Take mutt and do what? Btw, you might want to check the many, MANY posts
> I've made on the topic on www.deja.com before answering that. Chances are,
> I've already addressed what you may me thinking of several times over.
> Needless to say, mutt, while an excellent single-user, single-account MUA is
> utterly outclassed compared to PMMail/TB! when it comes to multiple accounts.
Ok, i'll look it through as time permits.
> > And now go and check the url I've provided above:-) But under
> > WinDOS this won't help you a lot, will it?
>
> Cool, postie. Actually, I used postie to send out turns for a Stars! game
> that I hosted quite a while ago. That and a batch file was all I need to send
> out news postings and turn files for my game of 5-6 people. One could do a
> lot with postie and perl if one was so inclined.
Yup, that was my point also. But that would require Perl.
Although there exists Perl for dosish systems, it lacks in power
considerably compared to how it can be used on Linux box.
Just because the winDOS is organized this way, and you can
do little or nothing about it.
SY, Alex
(St.Petersburg, Russia)
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