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Re: Question

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From: Robert Mortimer
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 00:00
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previously Nikki Locke <nikki@trmphrst.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <slrn6489ur.dj3.robm@desade.noc.demon.net>, Robert 
>Mortimer wrote:
>> previously Nikki Locke <nikki@trmphrst.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> >Just to wake everyone else up, I am currently porting cppnews to 
>> >Java, with a full graphical user interface. I hope to announce 
>> >JavaNews later this year.
>> In advance of the "official" dos port of java??
>> I assume it will still be a dos app.
>Nope. It will be a Java application, which will (I hope) run on any 
>Java implementation you can find.

Good job sun have announced thier intention to port java to DOS then.

>> BTW did I see you say that you had a bcc port of cppnews?
>> If so I'll have to mail you about getting a copy...
>Nope, the user interface toolkit has been ported, but cppnews hasn't.

Oh well, I'll stick to manually editing all the headers then.
At least until my C improves a _lot_, or I buy zhortech's compiler.

-- 
RobertM
Demon Internet Ltd
            "Trust the computer the computer is your fiend"
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From: robm@desade.noc.demon.net (Robert Mortimer)
Subject: Re: Question
Date: 1997/10/17
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