Hi there!
On 10 Jan 00, at 14:22, Steve Lamb wrote
about "Re: suggestion- / wish-list":
> Monday, January 10, 2000, 2:05:18 PM, John wrote:
> > Because, unlike UNIX, Windows has no established convention for
> > plonking a file to temp, calling a user-defined editor to edit it,
> > detecting (correctly, 100% of the time!) when the editor has exited,
> > and reloading the edited file.
>
> Well, PMMail does it just fine. I fail to see why other's can do it. A
> convention is started by people just doing it in a constant manner.
Nope, such conventions are called "protocols" and are described in RFCs.
Linux obeys, Windoze -- not. That's the fundamental difference;-)
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