Hello Roger!

06 Oct 03 10:34, you wrote to me:

 >>  RS>  Yes, that and JoHo's JAM... but I decided to do my own
 >>  RS> msgbase.

 >> :-( Most Fidonet developers do that.. I'm nearly the only one, who
 >> did write a independent product, which decided to use JAM and
 >> Squish (Oh well, depends of the API) ..

 RS>  I think there are many fidonet programs that support several bases.

Yes, Tools from the husky project supports 3 msgbases, Interecho supports even more.

 RS> TerMail supports .MSG and  JAM, and probably would have supported
 RS> more
 RS> if development had continued.

Well imho should *.MSG be standard.

 >>  >> Is there difference of using QT at Linux or Windows?

 >>  RS>  Yes, the license for Windows is out of my budget...  I'm not
 >>  RS> saying it expensive...  it is probably a fair price...  just
 >>  RS> more than I can afford.  ;-)

 >> .. and it's free on Linux? Kinda wierd..

 RS> Yes.  I don't know the details, but that is basically it.  They may
 RS> require fees if the Linux product is intended for commercial use.  I
 RS> don't want to give out bad info, so please check the site if you want
 RS> to know for sure.

Okay, but it's is commercial use? Would you be selling the point system?

 >>  >>  RS> because there is some peer level support for using
 >>  >>  RS> wxWindows with DMC via the forums on the Digital Mars
 >>  >>  RS> site.  What a great BBS that is!

 >>  >> DMC is?

 >>  RS>  Digital Mars Compiler...  #if defined (__DMC__)  etc...
 >>  RS> :-)

 >> Never heard of it, is it a proporitarian?

 RS>  I am not familiar with that word.  DMC was formerly known as Zortech
 RS> C and Symantec C++ before taking the name Digital Mars.  It was
 RS> written by Walter Bright, was at some point sold to Symantec, and has
 RS> now made it back to Mr. Bright.

Okay, he sold the copyright, so he needed to buy it back, for further
developing, I guess.

 RS> It supports 16bit DOS and Windows,
 RS> 32bit DOS, Win32s, and Win32.  It is free to download, though I
 RS> suggest people purchase the CD to show support for Walter's efforts.
 RS> He is only charging $25.00 USD.

Okay, that's quite cheep.

Regards,
Bo

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