🚀 go-pugleaf

In <V6mqwB2w165w@berry.Cary.NC.US> pat@berry.Cary.NC.US (Pat Berry) writes:

>First of all, let me apologize for frothing at the mouth the way I did.

:-)  That's ok.  Thank God 1992 is over.  1993 can only be better ... :-)

>That sounds marvelous to me, and more than I could have asked for.
>Currently, I have a batch file that calls uucico and then uuxqt.  I run
>it when I'm ready to dial up my smarthost, send my outgoing traffic, and
>receive any incoming stuff that might be waiting.  I could just add a
>line to the beginning to run the flush-into-Waffle program, right?

That's right.  I already have most of Helldiver Send ported to Windows now -
I just need to do the bits to put messages into the temporary directory and
write the flushing program.  Really easy really: just replace the call to
"spawnvp" with code to write the data to the temporary directory and recompile
with Borland C++'s EasyWin.

>> A native OS/2 version is a long-range possibility, but until I get more
>> disk space, more memory, and a compiler, it will remain vapourware.  A
>> Windows NT version is more likely in any event, because that is my currently
>> planned upgrade path.

>But you'll need at least as much disk space and memory for NT, won't
>you?  More, from what I've heard.  Either way, you still have to buy it.

Yes, but since I've got all the tools for Windows, I've decided to stay on
that stream for a little while longer.  I have nothing against OS/2 (except
IBM's feeble attempt to gain a monopoly again :-) - just a decision based on
the large amount of time and money I have invested in Windows and that Windows
apps can (more or less in Helldiver's case :-) be run under OS/2.

>This brings up a related question, one that will probably get me nicely
>flamed by Helldiver users everywhere.  But I'll ask it anyway.  Why are
>you giving Helldiver away for free?  A program this slick and
>sophisticated is well worth a modest registration fee -- and it wouldn't

I am thinking about it for a future version of Helldiver, but until it is
stable and the bug and wish lists reduce I don't feel right about it (heck - a
shareware author with morals - what is the world coming too? :-) .

Cheers,

Rhys.
--
Rhys Weatherley, University of Queensland, Australia.
rhys@cs.uq.oz.au  "I'm a FAQ nut - what's your problem?"