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From: Michael Cowgill <mcowgill@scoremac.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Messenger or TTFN
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Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 16:37:50 GMT
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In message <47BF9B7068%g.royds@bangor.ac.uk> you wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Aug 1997 13:16:32 +0100 Andrew Pontzen said:
>
> >
> > Sorry! However, I still feel that Messenger is our best bet.
> >
>
> I must beg to differ here. I've been using both TTFN and Messenger for
> several years now and have always returned to TTNF even when it wasn't
> under development. This decision was made based on the resources I had
> available at the time (Only an A5000 with 4Meg memory) and ease of use
> (TTFN did so much more until recently - now Messenger is starting to
> catch up - no offense Mark - it's looking lovely!)
>
> The deciding factor _has_ to be use of resources. If you're to package
> everything up then it has to be usable on a wide range of systems. The
> toolbox is only really usable on RiscOS 3.5+ machines. Certainly build
> an archive with 'alternative applications' and an installer but it's a
> little hard to use all the features (have you tried to fit Zap, ArcWeb,
> Newsbase, Messenger, 180K+ toolbox into a 4Meg machine?!?). TTFN covers
> all the features you might want (threading, url launching, mail & news
> reading ;-) without the additional overheads.
>
> All, of course, IMHO - Glyn.
>
Also, Messenger is hardly stable - I am getting an Adress Exception error when
closing the INBOX window often enough for it to be annoying, particularly on
the 10% of times it means a hard reset to release the machine. Interestingly
enough, Messenger refuses to launch again without a hard reset unless you
physically RMKill the ToolBox modules it has been using.
--
Bye. (8-)#
Michael Cowgill - mcowgill@scoremac.demon.co.uk
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