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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Z-MAIL 3.0 demo for *BSD ? Message-ID: <hastyCLqrE3.43q@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <CLnn4C.17t@latcs1.lat.oz.au> <2kghv4$b5m@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 18:30:01 GMT Lines: 36 In article <2kghv4$b5m@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >In article <CLnn4C.17t@latcs1.lat.oz.au>, >M.C. Wong <wongm@latcs4.lat.oz.au> wrote: > >> I am subscriber of SysAdmin mag, and in the Jan/Feb issue this year, >> there was a Z-MAIL 3.0 demo (by Z-Code Softwares Corp.) available for >> ftp from : ftp.uu.net:/vendor/z-code/zmail/3.0. However, there is no >> port for any of the *BSD, I wonder will the *BSD team be influential >> enough to talk them into a port for *BSD ? > >Doubtful for the free ports since *most* folks are running the free >version because it's cheap. Those with $$ are running BSDI, so I could >see the Z-code folks doing a BSDI port but not a port to the *BSD's. >There'd be little to no money in it. > > > Just because I may have $$$, does not mean I am going to spend wantomly... Because *BSD is cheap many are willing to try it and if they like something in that are invironment an engineer is more likely to recommend the product for his company. Proudly running FreeBSD at Cisco Amancio (Usual Disclaimer stuff: This is just my opinion) -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, interviews, tcl/tk, MIME, midi, sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant | Home: (415) 495-3046 | e-mail hasty@netcom.com | ftp-site depository of all my work: ahasty@cisco.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X