OS/2 RichEdit Control

[Larry Ebbitt]

On Sat, 28 Oct 2000 09:14:32 -0400 (EDT), Gregory L. Marx wrote:

>On Sat, 28 Oct 2000 05:20:58 -0400 (EDT), Larry Ebbitt wrote:
>
>>If you do find such a control, please make it's use an installation
>>option.  I don't want it, I don't want it wasting my CPU cycles, and 
>>I don't want it wasting space on my hard disk.  HTML is for the web!

>Think about it ... SS is going to be selling a NEW OS/2 based operating system called eCS ... For every new sale of eCS into the corporate world, 
>and to the individual user there's a potential new customer for other OS/2 software ... and IMO PMMail2000 is the best emailer out there for 
>OS/2 users ...

I have not seen anything about eCS that looks like a new operating system.
To
these tired eyes it looks like the same old system with some packaging help
and some ethereal promises of continued support.

I thought PMMail2000 was for windos users.

>And guess what ??? Those new users will expect at least a semblance of HTML support in their email package ...

If they are ignorant enough to want HTML email, what is going to sell them
on eCS,
prettier icons?

>Besides, knowing how creative Peter is in developing software (just look at PMView for an example) I'm sure he'll make the choice for HTML 
>mail an option which can be turned on/off ...

If you read my post, you'll see that that is what I was asking for.

>Also, if we want PMMail to have parity with it's Windows sibling we are going to have to accept that features might be added that we really 
>don't need or want ... and personally I like the HTML support in the windows version of PMMail ...

If parity means bloating with useless eye-candy, more code, and longer
paths, the I'll pass
on parity.

>Let's rally around what Blueprint Software is trying to do rather than being devisive and selfish 

It is not my habit to rally around things I oppose and think might be
harmful to me.

The only thing Blueprint could do that would make me turn handsprings, woul
be to make
available a Linux version of the current system with known bugs fixed. The
same applies to
PMView, one of the few other applications I miss in the Linux world. 

HTML is for the web, which is already fully FUBAR.





Larry  -  Atlanta / OS/2

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