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Re: NT, gpf from NewsWin at exit

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From: Bernard Rushton
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 00:00
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In article <gB9n01AK1vLxEAB9@turnpike.com>, Richard Clayton
<richard@turnpike.com> writes

>In article <kAMqcNA3r3KxEw4Z@foobar.demon.co.uk>, Bernard Rushton
><bernard@foobar.demon.co.uk> writes
>
>>Tried TP and am quite happy with it. [RC: I'll be
>>happier when it can integrate better with NT's stack! ;-) ]
>
>better is always a Good Thing.  What did you actually want ?

Nothing that I'm sure isn't already on the wishlist...

Basically I'm just a lazy blighter and would like to do everything under
NT with (almost) as few keystrokes as it would take under Win3.1.

>The limitations I am aware of relate to the NT stack not being
>interested in providing raw sockets via the WINSOCK, the time setting
>not being permissible for a 16bit program, and of course you don't get
>to use our dialler. Anything else ?

Offhand, no. Undoubtedly about 10 minutes after I've posted this
something will come to mind :(, but I would be very surprised if someone
else hasn't already thought of it.

Would there be any chance of making the wishlist public in, say, a
weekly-updated format, or would this be making a rod for your own back?
I appreciate you wouldn't necessarily want to say what was next in the
pipeline, and naturally you wouldn't have to give this information, but
it *could* work both ways and perhaps encourage people to make the
transition...

-- 
Bernard Rushton, Billericay, Essex, UK
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
     - Arthur C. Clarke
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