On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, tboy wrote:
> Hello!
>
> To give up windows is an exciting idea. But after thinking it over , I find that
>it's impossible for me, at least, for now, because of
> the lack of APPLICATIONS.
>
> Here's a long list of applications I need, not containing miscellaneous utilities:
>
> Internet related appss:
> A powerful email client that support multi-account and auto-filtering to
>replace Calypso
kmail (version 1.1 or greater)
> A powerful downloading utility that support drag&drop and clipboard monitoring
>to replace Net Vampire
so far, gui ftp isn't as there as I'd like.
> A powerful web-mirroring tool to replace Teleport Pro
rsync. Set it up with cron and it'll mirror stuff all over the place. I
edit *all* my web sites locally. While I sleep, they propagate.
> Other:
> A powerful word processing appication to replace Word
I like WordPerfect.
> Diagram authoring tool to replace Visio
You and me both.
_Deirdre * http://disclaimer.deirdre.org * http://www.deirdre.net
"I would rather choose to have my leg bitten off than to buy NT"
Rob Narberes, Information Systems Manager, DNA Plant Technologies Corp
as quoted in (!) Computerworld
