Hello Roger!

29 Sep 03 12:55, you wrote to me:

 >> I'm having fun too, by developing my fileticker :-)

 RS>  Nice.  What are your goals for the fileticker?

Lots of functionality and independent of liberies and stuff.. :-) My target
is to get all the functionality of a complete fileticker. I'm far from it
:-)

 >> How far are you? As far as I can see, might you have a working
 >> Tosser and Editor :-)

 RS> I have a raw prototype version running, really more of an experment.

Okay :-) Then it's easier to develop on (for your mind) then you have just
something there works.

 RS> I don't need to use Yahoo now.  I am tossing packets to .MSG format
 RS> for the time being.  I am working developing a really (I hope) robust
 RS> indexed messagebase.  Then I'll move to coding my "dream"
editor.  :-)
 RS> !!

Did you consider using the Squish messagebase?

 >> Should it include a mailer too?

 RS>  For now I'm using binkd.  I may take a shot at implementing a binkp
 RS> mailer...  but probably not, well, we'll see.  :-)

:-) There is alot of examples of BinkP mailers, including (of opensource)
Argus, BinkD, Qico, MBSE BBS and properly more.

 >>  RS> I knocked out using MFC...

 >> Uf, I don't guess MFC is portable :-(

 RS>  No, it doesn't have many redeeming qualities... other than being
 RS> available.  I would rather be using QT, but the Windows license is too
 RS> expensive for me.

Is there difference of using QT at Linux or Windows?

 RS> That is why I am looking at wxWindows... and
 RS> because there is some peer level support for using wxWindows with DMC
 RS> via the forums on the Digital Mars site.  What a great BBS that is!

DMC is?

Regards,
Bo

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