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  • Re: Newsreader

    From Earle Jones@earle.jones@comcast.net to comp.sys.mac.system on Sunday, April 09, 2006 22:20:43
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In article <tph-F74AC7.17074517032006@localhost>,
    Tom Harrington <tph@pcisys.no.spam.dammit.net> wrote:

    In article <michelle-B7CB2D.15411917032006@news.west.cox.net>,
    Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:

    In article <OUFSf.2321$HW2.1704@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net>,
    kurtullman@yahoo.com (Kurt Ullman) wrote:

    I have the plain vanilla Newswatcher for my MacBook. Not terribly impressed since it doesn't seem to have easy ways to catch-up and
    can't append signatures, etc. from my file. So, what do the paid for version add for the money and are there any other suggestions. I
    have been using NewsXpress for the PC.

    Get MT Newswatcher 3.4; it's freeware. So far as I know, there is no paid-for version of Newswatcher.

    MT-Newswatcher is not stable on Intel Macs, though. It'll work, but it crashes randomly. I haven't decided on an alternative yet.

    *
    Simon Fraser is working on a Universal build for MT-Newswatcher.
    The basic core seems to be stable -- but the bits and pieces are
    still broken.

    Should be available soon.

    Watch Version Tracker.

    earle
    *
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  • From Leonard Blaisdell@leo@greatbasin.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Sunday, April 09, 2006 23:18:10
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In article <earle.jones-C6F66A.22204309042006@netnews.comcast.net>,
    Earle Jones <earle.jones@comcast.net> wrote:


    Simon Fraser is working on a Universal build for MT-Newswatcher.
    The basic core seems to be stable -- but the bits and pieces are
    still broken.

    It's actually donationware. As nebulous as that sounds, it's required of
    him to make it so. I can't believe that he wouldn't appreciate a
    donation if you can spare it.

    leo

    --
    <http://web0.greatbasin.net/~leo/>
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  • From Babaganoosh@no@spam.invalid to comp.sys.mac.system on Monday, April 10, 2006 01:21:09
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In article <leo-510842.23181009042006@sn-indi.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net>,
    Leonard Blaisdell <leo@greatbasin.com> wrote:

    It's actually donationware. As nebulous as that sounds, it's required of
    him to make it so.

    I'm not following...

    --
    "Drop the One Ring! Drop it NOW!"
    - Jack Bauer in 'Lord of the Rings'
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  • From Tim McNamara@timmcn@bitstream.net to comp.sys.mac.system on Monday, April 10, 2006 08:32:45
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In article <100420060121092125%no@spam.invalid>,
    Babaganoosh <no@spam.invalid> wrote:

    In article
    <leo-510842.23181009042006@sn-indi.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net>, Leonard Blaisdell <leo@greatbasin.com> wrote:

    It's actually donationware. As nebulous as that sounds, it's
    required of him to make it so.

    I'm not following...

    Leonard is pointing out that Simon can't sell MT-NW. The core code for NewsWatcher was written by John Norstad and the copyright requires that derivative software can't be sold for profit. But you can support MT-NW
    by making a voluntary donation to Simon to defray the expenses he has in
    terms of time and Web server space to make the program available to us
    lucky people.

    The more money we donate, the more time Simon can afford to put into
    MT-NW, the more development he can do especially to clear up some of the
    odd little niggles and to make a Universal binary, etc.

    BTW, as a PPC Mac user can I just say "yuck" about Universal binaries?
    I hated fat binaries when Apple went from the 68xxx chips to the RISC architecture. I don't like them now. Fortunately there are some
    applications to strip out the code that is useless for PPC computers.
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  • From Tom Harrington@tph@pcisys.no.spam.dammit.net to comp.sys.mac.system on Monday, April 10, 2006 09:50:38
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In article <timmcn-986A95.08323910042006@news.iphouse.com>,
    Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> wrote:

    BTW, as a PPC Mac user can I just say "yuck" about Universal binaries?
    I hated fat binaries when Apple went from the 68xxx chips to the RISC architecture. I don't like them now. Fortunately there are some applications to strip out the code that is useless for PPC computers.

    You can say what you like, but if we didn't have universal binaries we'd
    just be hastening the day when developers didn't bother with PPC builds anymore. Not to mention the confusion of people who couldn't figure out
    if they should download the PPC or the Intel version of an application,
    and then didn't understand why it didn't work for them.

    --
    Tom "Tom" Harrington
    Macaroni, Automated System Maintenance for Mac OS X.
    Version 2.0: Delocalize, Repair Permissions, lots more.
    See http://www.atomicbird.com/
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