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Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 15:13:44 +0000
From: Bernard Peek 
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: Re: Wanting to change from XP to Ubuntu and keep using Turnpike
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In message , Moog  
writes
>Bernard Peek illuminated the devils arse on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:09:54
>+0000, by typing:
>
>>>> Was that TP 6 or one of the earlier versions?
>>>
>>>6
>>
>> OK, each to their own.
>
>Just a thought Bernard (I'm full of them)
>
>Have you asked the Wine crew for a bit of advice. Turnpike isn't a
>massively horrible program to install under windows, so should be fairly
>easy for the WINE guys to decipher.
>http://www.winehq.com/
>
>If it's worth a few quid to you, codeweavers may help...
>http://www.codeweavers.com/
>
>I understand that *you* like it. I do want to help, but *personally*, I
>do not see the point.

Thanks. It's a good idea but I'm a bit doubtful about it. The problem 
(as you know) is that TP consist of two different parts. "Turnpike 
Connect" is the part that connects to news/mail servers, downloads the 
messages, and files them in the central database. I'm pretty sure that 
this will run under Wine without any great difficulties.

The other part is "Turnpike Explorer" which is a Windows Explorer shell 
extension. Essentially it's a plug-in for Windows Explorer. It uses 
Explorer to handle displaying the data. Getting that running under Wine 
is not going to be a trivial exercise, even if the Wine team were 
interested in tackling it. I don't think that TP is worth the 
considerable effort required, but if they have already done it for 
another purpose TP might be able to piggyback on that effort.

I think that the answer, if there is one, will be a native Linux client 
that supports the multi-window views that Turnpike uses. I've had to 
give some more thought to just what I want in a TP replacement. It comes 
down to two different requirements, one back-end and one front-end.

The back-end requirement is for a simple system that can collect 
messages using at least NNTP and POP3 protocols. It has to be stable and 
reliable, two things that are easier to do in Linux than Windows. It 
should meet all of the requirements of GNKSA.

The front-end requirement is for a display program that is able to use 
full-screen windows for either a message or the group/folder/thread 
structure that the message is taken from. Being able to open multiple 
windows simultaneously is not essential but I have found it useful.

If anyone knows of any native Linux news or mail clients that support 
multiple windows I'd like to give them a try.


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Bernard Peek
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