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Started by Mike Doyle
Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:00
Question
Author: Mike Doyle
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:00
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What is this NewsGroup for? http://www.freeyellow.com/members/a1telecom
Re: Question
Author: Nikki Locke
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 00:00
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In article <61tp13$ae6196@beta.airnet.net>, Mike Doyle wrote: > What is this NewsGroup for? It is the support newsgroup for the DOS program cppnews, a shareware news and mail reader developed particularly to appeal to Demon Internet customers using KA9Q as their news and mail agent (but applicable to other users too). As DOS programs are no longer popular, cppnews usage has decreased markedly lately. There is still a core of users, though - I understand DOS programs are useful for those with a visual disability, as text-to-speech converters are available which work well with DOS. Just to wake everyone else up, I am currently porting cppnews to Java, with a full graphical user interface. I hope to announce JavaNews later this year. -- Nikki Locke, Trumphurst Ltd. PC & Unix consultancy & programming nikki@trmphrst.demon.co.uk http://www.trmphrst.demon.co.uk
Re: Question
Author: Les Turner
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 00:00
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In article <VA.000002ec.0099b4e2@trmphrst.demon.co.uk> Nikki Locke <nikki@trmphrst.demon.co.uk> writes: >Just to wake everyone else up, I am currently porting cppnews to >Java, with a full graphical user interface. I hope to announce >JavaNews later this year. But will I still be able to work it from a 3.5" floppy disk? -- Les
Re: Question
Author: Nikki Locke
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 00:00
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I doubt it :-) -- Nikki Locke, Trumphurst Ltd. PC & Unix consultancy & programming nikki@trmphrst.demon.co.uk http://www.trmphrst.demon.co.uk
Re: Question
Author: Robert Mortimer
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 00:00
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previously Nikki Locke <nikki@trmphrst.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <61tp13$ae6196@beta.airnet.net>, Mike Doyle wrote:
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>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.
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...
/* I am a registered user just not at this address :-) */
--
RobertM
Demon Internet Ltd
"Trust the computer the computer is your fiend"
Re: Question
Author: Nick Leverton
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 00:00
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In article <slrn6489ur.dj3.robm@desade.noc.demon.net> robm@desade.noc.demon.net (Robert Mortimer) writes: >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... I don't think he has, Rob, just of the windowing toolkit. It's been a spare time project of mine for a while, but my C++ is lamentably weak and BCPP is a rather newer compiler (hence more strict and with different rules) than Zortech, so it's rather on the back burner at the moment. I'd be delighted to swap notes though. >/* I am a registered user just not at this address :-) */ Me too, some day I must figure out how to stop it sending reminders :-) N.
Re: Question
Author: Nikki Locke
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 00:00
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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. > 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. -- Nikki Locke, Trumphurst Ltd. PC & Unix consultancy & programming nikki@trmphrst.demon.co.uk http://www.trmphrst.demon.co.uk
Re: Question
Author: Robert Mortimer
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 00:00
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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