DOS ain't dead

DOS email clients? (Users)

posted by bocke, 29.12.2023, 22:02
(edited by bocke on 29.12.2023, 22:21)

> FLmail support gmaill and others mail service.
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> https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive...ox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos/FLMAIL91.zip
>
> Roberto

FLTK for DOS programs are the result of Georg Potthast's merger of two projects: Nano-X/MicroWindows and XD640. The first one had a port to DJGPP and a port of FLTK to it, for quite some time. The other was a small FLTK based Linux desktop environment for VGA 640x480 resolution made by Jean-Marc Lienher.

Georg ported FLTK 1.3 to Nano-X including XD640 programs and some other FLTK based projects. He likely also made quite a few improvements to programs. For example, the original flmail that came with XD640 likely didn't support SSL. Also, he likely ported them to FLTK 1.3, as they used a custom version of FLTK 1.1 with UTF8 support.

As the original code of flmail is under a license similar to BSD or MIT, George is not required to post his modifications.

I would argue this actually proves that if you don't plan to commercialize a project, you might better put it under GPL or similar license, so you can follow the changes by others in the future. And if author of a port is not able to maintain it, anyone else can take over from the latest code point.

Nowadays, when George decreased his presence on the web (I hope he is ok as it kinda coincides with the COVID), there's none to pick it up and recompile with the newer OpenSSL version (or an alternative SSL library).

Edit:

I remembered he also made a small Linux distribution based on Tiny Core and Nano-X: NanoLinux. It featured some of the same software as FLTK for DOS project with some additional FLTK apps.

Links for those interested:
https://lienher.org/jean-marc/xd640/en.html
https://github.com/o-ksi-d/xd640
http://microwindows.org/
https://github.com/ghaerr/microwindows
https://fltk-dev.easysw.narkive.com/n3Mk7FJB/fltk-1-3-0-ported-to-dos
https://code.google.com/archive/p/nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/fltk-dos/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/nanolinux/

Complete thread:

• DOS email clients? - Karen, 21.11.2023, 04:50
  • DOS email clients? - mceric, 21.11.2023, 10:26
    • DOS email clients? - SuperIlu, 21.11.2023, 21:45
      • DOS email clients? - Karen, 22.11.2023, 01:36
        • DOS email clients? - mceric, 22.11.2023, 12:47
          • DOS email clients? - iw2evk, 03.12.2023, 13:48
            • DOS email clients? - glennmcc, 03.12.2023, 18:05
            • DOS email clients? - bocke, 29.12.2023, 22:02
              • DOS email clients? - bocke, 05.01.2024, 17:11