On Sat 21-Jun-1997  5:21a, Scott Christensen wrote:
SC> Going by the chart, I believe MacKennel - the premier mailer for the Mac 

SC> should fly a XA flag.
If you were flying the XA flag, I would assume your mailer was:
F'reqable for files and updates using: Bark, WaZoo, & ZedZap
I would make no assumptiion as to the actual mailer or the platform that 
mailer was running on from that flag...
SC> That shoots everything Bill has been trying to say about Macs on Fidonet
SC> all to pieces.
'fraid so...  But, we will just chill now and not even talk about it anymore.
Let's let these last days with Bill be happy ones!
SC> Also, I think that Bill will find that something like 30% to 40% of the
SC> computers that access the Internet are Macs - with around 10% of them in
SC> the population at large. 
I do think that is close to correct, more like 20-25% from what I have heard, 
but still, that is a high percentage, when you consider there are PCs out the 
butt in this world, where are they all if they are not on the 'net?
SC> .................            That means that of the "power users" of any
SC> particular platform, more of the Mac users are power users than the other
SC> plaforms.  
Well, let's put it this way...  You don't see Macs sitting around unused.  
People buy Macs usually for WORK, and they do WORK on them like they planned 
in the first place.  That is why you see them on the 'net.  And they are 
doing serious jobs as servers, and aren't just 'browsin'...
SC> Now I want my power user program that will control my scanner from my 
ac!
SC>  
Every machine has it's downside! hehehe   What do you wish to do with your 
scanner?  Can you program in C?  I might be able to help you.  BUT, knowing 
nothing about Mac, I would have to write for my platform (Amiga), and still, 
it shouldn't be too hard to port anything I write almost directly over to the 
Mac....  If the job is just to move banks of data in blocks for storage on 
the Mac, that is NO problem...  If it requires controlling the scanners vfo 
and doing all the work for the scanner, searching for 'hits' and logging 
them, and blocking out 'birdies', then that is another story!  And that would 
depend on the scanner (or scanner interface), and I would probably need to 
aquire a duplicate setup in order to work with it...
John
DR. John M. Hoyt / AKA Warren Peace  -  C-Link! International Coordinator
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