PE> Well you can always use MSGED as the basis of your editor, 
 PE> whether you wish to make a commercial product out of it or not. 

Doubtful.  I'd prefer to write my own code wherever possible, rather than
rehashing (rehacking? :-)) existing code.  I learn a lot more about program
design by rewriting things.


 PE> Golded was supposedly created by modifying MSGED.

That's what GOLDED.DOC says.  GoldED does operate in a similar way,
although I believe most of GoldED is now C++.  GoldED is a little too
bulky/buggy IMO.


 PE> What is it you don't like about MSGED anyway?

Nothing really; it does the job.  I'm accustomed to what I use now - I
can't see any reason to change right now.

When the MsgEd 3.04 archive arrives in Melbourne I'll take a good look at
it though, provided it runs in OS/2 native mode.


 PE> At the moment, the only non-PD stuff in MSGED is the version 7 
 PE> nodelist lookup, the MSGAPI library and some userlist lookup 
 PE> which I am not sure what does, but it's only  a small amount of 
 PE> code so I am planning on reading it to find out what the specs 
 PE> are and rewriting it.  BFN.

Version7 nodelist lookup shouldn't be too difficult, but rewriting the
Squish MSGAPI code is no small task.  How are you managing to do that?  Why
do you want the entire application written using PD code?  Is this
important? 

BTW, what are your future plans for MsgEd?


 PE> P.S. It was either you or Rowan that wanted me to generate 
 PE> REPLYID even if I wasn't going to generate MSGID.  Check it out!

That'd probably be Rowan.  Good feature that.


ZeeYa...
Andrew.

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