28 Oct 15 16:29, you wrote to James Coyle:
NB> Anyhow, FMail is for Windows.
FMail is also for DOS... or it was every time i've used it... even on
winwhatever ;)
NB> I've asked (on more than one occasion) for a Linux port, only to be
NB> denied or told to do it myself. If one has time to gripe about stupid
NB> stuff in FTN messages, I would think one would have the time to make a
NB> Linux port of their software, so others can tinker and/or benefit from
NB> it as well?
porting winwhatever and/or DOS stuffs to *nix is much harder than you might
think... the worlds are quite different... the first major thing to deal with
is drive letters ;)
NB> Either way, I'm fairly certain you've already nailed the #1 spot for
NB> software contribution in the last 2 years, hands down. When was the
NB> last time a full featured binkp server was created? How about a full
NB> fledged FTN tosser? Woah, Nelly! I think we may have to go back damn
NB> near a decade or more for answers to that!
AFAIK, mystic is the only one other than synchronet... there are a few others
in work but they are way behind the curve...
)\/(ark
... Its never too late to have a happy childhood
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