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From: help@kendra.kew.com (Drew Derbyshire - UUPC/extended Help Desk)
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From article <1853@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca>, by sl@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne):
> Just a footnote here.
> 
> When we did uupc we put everything into one package because we where not
> sure that we would be able to find a system() call everywhere (like on the
> Mac, Atari, etc). So even though the MS-DOS version could have had separate
> programs we made it all in one for portability.
> 
> We would far prefer to have had separate programs allowing them to be
> extended.

More ramblings, from the other coast ....

Actually, I am working on breaking the mailer out from the user agent
one of these days; things are getting a tad cramped, although my only
real problems are when I run the debugger (I use Turbo Debugger) AND the
mail program and the editor.  Nor do I mind helping the MUSH porter ...
the only real problem is the 128 character limit on argument strings in
MS-DOS.

Of course, depending on the weather and whether or not KEW (KEW.COM isn't
REALLY named after kendra) is around, I work on the UUPC OS/2 port
(I had the MUA up under OS/2 1.2 this evening), the UUPC Zenith Z-100
port, Z-100 MS-Kermit, UUPC news ... I wonder how I get anything actually
done.  :-)

I don't consider myself under the same restrictions as the original
authors, however, because I do not attempt support outside of my areas
of expertise and interest (I own or use a MS-DOS based PC, a Z-100 PC, and
an OS/2 based PS/2), so I don't worry about Atrari or Mac restrictions;
MS C versus Turbo C++ is quite enough.

Drew Derbyshire

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