Subject: Console Pine w/ Winsock?

From: Chris Henesy <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 01:43:29 -0400

First, appoligies if this is a worn out or frequently asked question,
but I was wondering if anyone has talked about a version of pine (or if
another e-mail reader exists) that runs in a Windows95 or Windows NT
command prompt, yet uses winsock for it's communications.  What I am
trying to do is to allow people who already telneting into a Windows NT
server to use a text based client to read pop e-mail.  Anyone ever heard
of this?

	IMHO the pc-pine version is kind of silly in the fact that it continues
to implement the program as text based, yet it's in a window.  They
should have left it strictly text so you could and run it at a command
prompt.

	-Chris

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From: Christopher Hicks <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 21:52:28 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Chris Henesy wrote:

> 	IMHO the pc-pine version is kind of silly in the fact that it
> continues to implement the program as text based, yet it's in a window. 
> They should have left it strictly text so you could and run it at a
> command prompt. 

Windows 3.1 doesn't support CLI apps using winsock at all.  The support in
Win95 is a pain.  (Look at Quake.)  If somebody released a free version of
the type of technology used in Quake I can think of lots of applications
for it.

</chris>

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From: Peter Karlsson <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 10:50:04 +0200

On 17 Apr 1997, Christopher Hicks wrote:

> Windows 3.1 doesn't support CLI apps using winsock at all. 

Correct.

> The support in Win95 is a pain.  (Look at Quake.) 

No, not really. Quake is a special case, since it runs a Win32 "server"
and a DOS program as "client". You can run Win32 programs directly in
charactermode and access the Winsock, look at Lynx/Win32.

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