PG>      from this -added function-.
PG>      Way back when they first introduced the -added
PG>      function-
PG>      Now what was it we gained again?
PG>      -added function- of some value?
PG>      Again, perhaps *this* time you will help me understand
PG>      what they were indicating . . .
I will certainly try to assist in your understanding.  I have quoted
portions of your message in an unusual way.  Primarily, to directly
indicate your usage of the term "-added function-."  With respect sir,
please understand that this is where your misunderstanding seems to be
originating.  The various advertisements that Mustang Software made in
regards to the fact that QmodemPro for DOS, will up and download files
from defined directories that are separate from the defined directories
utilized by Offline Xpress, were not an indication of any kind of
"-added function-."  They were simply an explicit explanation of the
capabilities of the program.  Primarily intended I suspect, to serve as
an easy to understand features explanation, and primarily directed
towards novice communications programs users.  They are after all,
trying to sell a product.  What better way to do it, than to expound on
every possible capacity.  As you might well imagine, most accomplished
comm program users would already have known this sort of capability
exists with respect to most communications programs.  Your apparent
mistake, was to have assumed that by virtue of MSI happening to be the
only software author to communicate this specific information, that they
were offering the public something that other software authors could not
do.  In reality, they most certainly did not.  They were just being
exactly specific about what any user could *optionally do* with the
programs QmodemPro for DOS and Offline Xpress.
However just for your information, you should be advised that QmodemPro
for DOS and its associated offline mail reading program Offline Xpress,
do offer something that other competing software authors do not provide.
There is indeed a genuine gain.  The combined usage of these two
programs, permits a user to send and receive E-Mail from both
CompuServe, and MCI.  As far as I know, no other software author matches
this ability in any of their competing products.  Perhaps you would
agree, that this feature, and others, make the overall software package
a fine quality product.
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