Friday, April 14, 2000, 10:56:42 AM, Patrick wrote:
> and another: why do you use the bat? with all these tasks it can manage
> which is better left to other clients. an adress book - why doesn't
> it access a PIM?
Funny, mine only holds email addresses for expansion, nothing more. My
/PALM/ has all the other relevant information.
> an image viewer: it should use windows default one.
You mean like ACDSee, which I do call from TB!?
> and, ouh, it can even be a mailing list host.
Not one worth anything at all. It hardly compares to Listar.
> and a mail server.
It can sit on port 25 and route mail? Uh, no. Exim for that.
> and you can even /write/ mail?!!
And every time I wish I could do 1/2 the formatting in vim I curse TB!.
IE, as it stands right now it really is doing a lot of tasks it shouldn't.
Yes, I have said that before about TB! as well as other products. Your point?
> it is absolute legitime to expand a program
No, it is not. The one constant of the software world is that specialized
programs will always function better in their assigned roll than the same
component of a generalized program. Too many programmers forget that and as a
result we get bloated mediocre problems which are best described as useless.
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