In a message of  Derek Woodlands (3:713/914.15) wrote:

Hi Derek,

Well, after a few weeks of virtually no traffic at all I got the princely
total of 89 messages today.  Not much but better than the one or two per
day that I've been seeing lately.  Have my routine posts like AmiNet Daily
been getting out?  Mind you, looking at the date on this message I'm
replying to I suspect there's been a breakdown of some sort somewhere. 
Perhaps it will recover now?  Anything's possible.

 DW> An earlier version of PPaint was given away on a recent Aminet disk. 
 DW> I picked up v6.2 of PPaint from Amadeus for the princely sum of $50 a
 DW> while back.  It didn't have the box, that's why it was cheap.  Oh, it
 DW> is also available on CD with a bunch of other programs for $99.

Yeah, but even that may be a stretch for a little while yet.  Got to plan
ahead for a big rural trade show out here next month.  Myself and a local
computer dealer are sharing a stand there.

 DF>> without the time needed to learn another new paint program well

 DW> It is very similar to DPaint.  I picked it up within 30 minutes.

While that may help it's probably not of critical importance.  To be
honest, for the last week or two I really haven't had much time to do more
than routine BBS maintenance on the Amiga.  The linux and Win95 machines
have been taking up much of my time...

 DF>> having all these new toys to play with but it takes even more of my
 DF>> spare time to get comfortable with them.

 DW> This is true.  And I'm still looking for a decent Dopus for the IBuM, 
 DW> So far the best is a shareware program called File Plus.

I haven't even tried to find one.  I make do with Explorer for what little
file maintenance I feel the need to do on the Win95 machine (and use
Midnight Commander for the linux stuff when I need something of that sort).

Oh, just an aside in case some of my messages haven't been getting out... 
the AUST_AMIGA web pages are up and running as:

http://www.gla.com.au/aust_amiga/index.html

and I'm looking for people to provide images of themselves, home page
URL's, good Amiga-related URLs and general feedback on the site.  Have a
look at the pages and you'll get the idea.

Oh, and what's the state of play on Amiga web browsers?  What level of HTML
do they support these days?

  //  CYA,
\X/ Dave ;-)

... A king's castle is his home.         

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