From: Alex Crowther <mr_spod AT hotmail DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,alt.dos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Non Existant dos pipes ... where did they go ?
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 01:34:43 +0100
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Damian Yerrick wrote:

> Alex Crowther <mr_spod AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:
> >
>
> Your use of hotmail.com supports Micro$oft. The opposite of
> Hotmail can be found at http://www.coldmail.com
>
>

Thats one perspective .. the other is that all my spam mail goes there :p
While my real email address is at the bottom yahoo mail is the most
reliable mail survice I have found.

Changing your reply header seems to be enough to fool most spammer
programs, because while I do have my real email at the bottom plainly
readable, I have not received any spam mail to it since I opened the
Other account at hotmail, whos only purpose is to keep me from getting
clogged and clog microsoft at the same time :)

Evil Coder


> > Having recently installed djgpp gcc along with all the supporting
> > Unixish command line clones (e.g. less, pwd, hostname, su
> > etc etc), I have started writing command
> > line dos utils for use in dos or bash for dos.
> >
> > Basic problem is, I have found that all the machines
> > at work don't seem to
> > be able to pipe commands, for example, the command
> >8
> > dir | awk '{ blar }'
> >
> > results in | awk being bad arguments to dir.
>
> Beats me. My friend abigail doesn't know either.
>
> > One last thing, is there a windows libary for gcc so I can write
> > graphical windows apps ???
>
> You can make apps with graphical windows (note: small w)
> with the Allegro library
> http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro/
> and any of the many GUI add-ons listed under Library Extensions.
> But if you want to make a Win32 app for Sinbloze
> Ninety-Hate, using WinAPI, you'll have to get one of these:
>
> MinGW32, a minimal gcc for Win32
> RSXNTDJ, a gcc-based Windows development system
>   (you'll have to patch it up; instructions at http://surf.to/rsxntdj)
> Micro$oft Visual C++
>
> Hope this helps
> --
> Damian Yerrick
> http://pineight.webjump.com/

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