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echo: os2prog
to: Joerg-Stefan Sell
from: andrew clarke
date: 1995-08-31 21:24:12
subject: text mode - pm

20 Aug 95 11:00, Joerg-Stefan Sell wrote to Paul Edwards:

 >> If they did, I could imagine that it would be possible to turn an OS/2 
 >> fullscreen program such as MSGED/SQ into a PM application.

 > You can turn every textmode application into a PM program when you make 
 > use of redirected stdin/stdout. But I don't see any reason why you 
 > should do that hack.

Can you explain this a little further?  Tnx.

 > A common OS/2 fullscreen program doesn't make use of PM functions like 
 > the clipboard for example, and - more important - there *are* native PM 
 > message readers (FleetStreet, Sqed/32, MyEd, PMMsged).

Is the source code available for any of these message readers?  Source code
is freely available for Msgedsq 3.20 (and is 100% public domain code).

andrew

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