Subject: Re: Console Pine w/ Winsock?

From: Peter Karlsson <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 21:36:56 +0200

On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Stephen R. Laniel wrote:

> But Windows was meant to move beyond the character-mode DOS interface. 

Yes, but Win32 has a charactermode (Lynx for Win32 uses this). A Pine for
that would be nice. The DOS version of Pine cannot access the Winsock
driver, and is limited to DOS' 640 Kbyte barrier, a textmode Win32 program
would not be limited in such a way.

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