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This is a pain in the butt
On 10 Jul 2017 17:08:30 -0400, Harry Krause
wrote: Flakey software What software? |
This is a pain in the butt
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This is a pain in the butt
On 10 Jul 2017 18:48:36 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote:
What software? I am trying out a new usenet reader/writer on my iPad. I have been pretty happy with my 15 year old copy of Agent. It is not really dependent on the OS, it is not "installed", it is just an EXE. I am not even sure it uses Windows calls beyond the network drivers and certainly nothing that is registry dependent. I know this version works on W/95-8. |
This is a pain in the butt
On 10 Jul 2017 19:34:08 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote:
I have been pretty happy with my 15 year old copy of Agent. It is not really dependent on the OS, it is not "installed", it is just an EXE. I am not even sure it uses Windows calls beyond the network drivers and certainly nothing that is registry dependent. I know this version works on W/95-8. Never liked Agent; doubt it would work on my iPad. :) Too much like having a computer huh? ;-) The only real trick with Agent is getting the options set the way you like it. After that it does everything I want to do. I can do Email, usenet, including binaries, up or down. |
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This is a pain in the butt
On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 06:58:28 -0400, John H
wrote: On Mon, 10 Jul 2017 20:14:54 -0400, wrote: On 10 Jul 2017 19:34:08 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: I have been pretty happy with my 15 year old copy of Agent. It is not really dependent on the OS, it is not "installed", it is just an EXE. I am not even sure it uses Windows calls beyond the network drivers and certainly nothing that is registry dependent. I know this version works on W/95-8. Never liked Agent; doubt it would work on my iPad. :) Too much like having a computer huh? ;-) The only real trick with Agent is getting the options set the way you like it. After that it does everything I want to do. I can do Email, usenet, including binaries, up or down. I'm running 7.20/32.1218 now. Works as well with win10 as it did with XP. Like you say, hardest part is setting all the options. I have not actually screwed with the way mine is set up for well over a decade. I just keep cloning the original copy and fine tuning the target. All of the buttons and retrieval options stay the same. This is version 1.91 That was when it got the ability to handle yEnc and RAR files. I use a couple of plug ins to break open more exotic binary packing formats. I might be in as much trouble as Harry if I had to start over with a virgin version. |
This is a pain in the butt
On 7/11/17 12:04 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 06:58:28 -0400, John H wrote: On Mon, 10 Jul 2017 20:14:54 -0400, wrote: On 10 Jul 2017 19:34:08 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: I have been pretty happy with my 15 year old copy of Agent. It is not really dependent on the OS, it is not "installed", it is just an EXE. I am not even sure it uses Windows calls beyond the network drivers and certainly nothing that is registry dependent. I know this version works on W/95-8. Never liked Agent; doubt it would work on my iPad. :) Too much like having a computer huh? ;-) The only real trick with Agent is getting the options set the way you like it. After that it does everything I want to do. I can do Email, usenet, including binaries, up or down. I'm running 7.20/32.1218 now. Works as well with win10 as it did with XP. Like you say, hardest part is setting all the options. I have not actually screwed with the way mine is set up for well over a decade. I just keep cloning the original copy and fine tuning the target. All of the buttons and retrieval options stay the same. This is version 1.91 That was when it got the ability to handle yEnc and RAR files. I use a couple of plug ins to break open more exotic binary packing formats. I might be in as much trouble as Harry if I had to start over with a virgin version. It's not a matter of "trouble," it's just that Agent is a pain in the ass to set up for the simple tasks for which I use email and usenet reading/posting. It's overkill by a factor of 100, at least. I don't download pieces and parts of audio or video files with Thunderbird...just plain email and usenet texts. If there is a file attached to an emails, Thunderbird handles the download...word files, xls files, et cetera. |
This is a pain in the butt
On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 12:34:28 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 7/11/17 12:04 PM, wrote: On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 06:58:28 -0400, John H wrote: On Mon, 10 Jul 2017 20:14:54 -0400, wrote: On 10 Jul 2017 19:34:08 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: I have been pretty happy with my 15 year old copy of Agent. It is not really dependent on the OS, it is not "installed", it is just an EXE. I am not even sure it uses Windows calls beyond the network drivers and certainly nothing that is registry dependent. I know this version works on W/95-8. Never liked Agent; doubt it would work on my iPad. :) Too much like having a computer huh? ;-) The only real trick with Agent is getting the options set the way you like it. After that it does everything I want to do. I can do Email, usenet, including binaries, up or down. I'm running 7.20/32.1218 now. Works as well with win10 as it did with XP. Like you say, hardest part is setting all the options. I have not actually screwed with the way mine is set up for well over a decade. I just keep cloning the original copy and fine tuning the target. All of the buttons and retrieval options stay the same. This is version 1.91 That was when it got the ability to handle yEnc and RAR files. I use a couple of plug ins to break open more exotic binary packing formats. I might be in as much trouble as Harry if I had to start over with a virgin version. It's not a matter of "trouble," it's just that Agent is a pain in the ass to set up for the simple tasks for which I use email and usenet reading/posting. It's overkill by a factor of 100, at least. I don't download pieces and parts of audio or video files with Thunderbird...just plain email and usenet texts. If there is a file attached to an emails, Thunderbird handles the download...word files, xls files, et cetera. Good. |
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