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Chris Keenan wrote:
> 
> As others have said, one of the major applications I would miss by
> moving to Linux totally would be Agent. A couple of questions:
> 
> Why is this about the only combined news & e-mail reader? I don't want
> to have separate packages for these functions, and as they are
> basically the same type of task, what's the big deal? I want to be
> able to respond directly to newsgroup articles, or to respond to their
> authors by e-mail. Agent allows me to do this from one screen.
> 
> Secondly, as I understand it, development on Agent has stopped. Is
> there any chance someone might take it off Forte's hands, and do a
> Linux version?
> 
> I'd be interested to hear the thoughts of others.
>

I run Agent-16bit under Wabi everyday, and it works great.
Others have Agent-32 running under Wine.

I have inquired about Linux version of various windows
software that I like, such as Agent and Windows Commander.
The answer I get is that the software was developed with
Window's software, and alot of the windowing commands are
so different from X-windows, that it would be easier to
re-write from scratch. Something written in Delphi or
Visual C with the MFC libraries, dosn't translate to
Unix and X-windows very well.
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