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to: Bob Seaborn
from: Dan Egli
date: 2004-02-10 15:39:28
subject: Using Allfix as a mail processor

Tuesday February 10 2004 10:59, you wrote to me:

 >>
 >>SR> Of course, Uni was supposed to work for NIX as well or at least
 >>SR> that
 >>SR> was the plan
 >>
 >> Actually, acording to what Harrold told me while I was on the Beta
 >> Team
 >> is that Allfix/U was not designed for *nix at all. Just for the
 >> Dos'ish
 >> O/S'es (DOS, OS/2, Win32)


 BS>       No version of AllFix is designed to work under 'nix.  The 16bit
 BS> dos version _may_ if a 'nix dos emulator s used, but as far as I
 BS> recall, it was never fully tested.

Thats precisely what I said Bob :> Allfix/U (which is the only
multiplatform version I am aware of) was not ever designed for *nix O/S's
:>

 BS>       Way back when, there were plans for a 'nix version, but they
 BS> got forgotten when Harald sold the AllFix rights to Dale, who only
 BS> seemed to want to work on a win version. Since we've assumed
 BS> ownership of the code, the win- only concept has been dropped.  After
 BS> all there's _still_ dos users out there!

 BS>       With the support for the uni version being dropped by the
 BS> LX-Power people, I doubt if there'll ever be another uni version, but
 BS> there should be DOS, OS/2, and win versions separately available some
 BS> day.  And maybe a 'nix version.
That will be cool.



Dan
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