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Article #390Re: DOS/BATCH.TXT -based Newsreader possibilities
From: Nikki Locke
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 00:00
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It is Zortech. If you want the source, you'll have to register. It's only 15 quid + VAT. Barely covers the cost of the paperwork :-) I wouldn't like to port the code to gcc, because the code relies on my user interface library, and you'd have to start by porting that. Not too difficult (it's already been ported to Borland), but the directory search routines are a bit of a pain (every library did it differently in those days). But you end up porting a lot of stuff that probably isn't relevant. Actually, the idea of indexing batch.txt isn't bad - I have thought about it a few times myself, but really couldn't be bothered to lose compatibility with Snews. -- Nikki Locke, Trumphurst Ltd. PC & Unix consultancy & programming nikki@trmphrst.demon.co.uk http://www.trmphrst.demon.co.uk
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10bb05,171858c4f13d835f X-Google-Attributes: gid10bb05,public From: Nikki Locke <nikki@trmphrst.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: DOS/BATCH.TXT -based Newsreader possibilities Date: 1997/08/11 Message-ID: <VA.000000c2.00c7e91a@trmphrst.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 263983039 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: trmphrst.demon.co.uk [158.152.8.60] References: <kegoqwab@holly.demon.co.uk> <VA.000000a7.004966ed@trmphrst.demon.co.uk> <kegtuiaa@holly.demon.co.uk> <VA.000000b2.00c12e0a@trmphrst.demon.co.uk> <kehbxvaa@holly.demon.co.uk> Organization: Trumphurst Ltd. Reply-To: nikki@trmphrst.demon.co.uk Newsgroups: demon.ip.developers